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Add Wireless Beacons at Choke Points and Select Areas within the Transit Facility to Facilitate Accessible Location, Navigation, and Routing Services.

Enable turn-by-turn wayfinding by using wireless beacons at “choke points” and selected areas. Although testing at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and Union Station demonstrated that the…
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Lesson
Date Posted
02/01/2022
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Transit Traveler Information (PT08), Transit Pedestrian Indication (PT11), Traffic Information Dissemination (TM06)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States   |   McLean, Virginia, United States

When Implementing Pedestrian and Bicycle Automated Count Technologies, Select and Design Sites with Widths Compatible with Detector Parameters and Avoid Unconstrained Locations to Mitigate Bypass Errors.

Place counters strategically at the site to minimize bypass errors. Careful selection for the location of counters at the site plays an important role in the ultimate accuracy of the collected count…
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Lesson
Date Posted
11/23/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Vulnerable Road User Safety (VS12)
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Arlington, Virginia, United States   |   Washington, District of Columbia, United States   |   Oakland, California, United States

Adoption of Digital Contactless Fare Payment System Was Estimated To Reduce Fare Collection and Provisioning Costs by $4.4 Million.

Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) recently installed open-loop fare payment systems which integrate Apple and Google pay into the fare payment system. Overall, WMATA estimates that…
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Benefit
Date Posted
09/16/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Multi-Modal Electronic Payment (TI05), Transit Fare Collection Management (PT04)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Designing Questions about Speed in Several Different Ways May Help Improve the Usefulness of Automated Shuttle Survey Results, as Low Speeds Have a Complicated Relation to User Acceptance.

The following are several lessons learned from the projects for the development of future surveys about automated shuttles as they relate to survey population, survey approach, and questionnaire…
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Lesson
Date Posted
08/25/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) En-Route Guidance (TI03), Automated Vehicle Operations (VS16), Transit Fleet Management (PT06), Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States   |   Berlin, Germany   |   Tampa, Florida, United States   |   Tallinn, Estonia

High Occupancy/Toll System in Northern Virginia Improves Both Travel Time and Travel Time Reliability.

A research group at University of Maryland studied the effects of HOT tolling on the I-66 corridor. The team first gathered a robust mix of data sets such as toll data, probe speed data, and…
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Benefit
Date Posted
03/20/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Road Use Charging (TM11), HOV/HOT Lane Management (ST06), Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09)
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Virginia, United States   |   Washington, District of Columbia, United States   |   Arlington, Virginia, United States

Increased towing enforcement in areas with ParkMobile parking meters helped Washington DC realize benefits of a new curb management strategy.

DDOT found that towing was necessary to realize the full benefits of PUDO zones. The success of the pilot has led the District to install additional PUDO zones across the city. Lesson learned and…
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Lesson
Date Posted
02/26/2020
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Infrastructure-Based Traffic Surveillance (TM01), Parking Space Management (PM01), Smart Park and Ride System (PM02), Regional Parking Management (PM04), Parking Reservations (PM05), Loading Zone Management (PM06), Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Double parking and illegal U-turns in Washington, DC decrease by 64 percent with curbside delivery reservation system.

Data were collected from 6,350 commercial drivers representing more than 900 companies with 15,000 reservations made across DC. Highlights from the research project include: Incidents of double…
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Benefit
Date Posted
11/25/2019
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Parking Space Management (PM01), Regional Parking Management (PM04), Parking Reservations (PM05), Loading Zone Management (PM06)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Transportation network company (TNC) usage is associated with decreased vehicle ownership and fewer single occupancy vehicle trips.

The study attempts to broaden the understanding of the interplay among emerging and established modes of transportation by approaching from several angles the question of how shared modes, and…
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Benefit
Date Posted
09/12/2018
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Transit Stop Request (PT15), Route ID for the Visually Impaired (PT16), Shared Use Mobility and Dynamic Ridesharing (TI06)
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Los Angeles, California, United States   |   Nashville, Tennessee, United States   |   San Francisco, California, United States   |   Washington, District of Columbia, United States   |   Chicago, Illinois, United States   |   Seattle, Washington, United States

Fleet of battery-based electric buses in Washington, DC to displace nearly 90,000 gallons of diesel per year and result in maintenance cost savings of more than $500,000 annually.

Expected Benefits The 14 electric buses will displace more than 88,900 gallons of diesel per year, and eliminate more than 243,980 pounds of CO2 emissions annually. In addition to the…
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Benefit
Date Posted
06/08/2018
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Emissions Monitoring (ST01)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States

A modeling effort showed that the number of vehicle miles traveled by autonomous mobility-on-demand vehicles can be reduced by 50 percent when service is paired with mass transit.

Findings Under baseline, free-flow conditions, 81.09 percent of trips are completed fastest by the AMoD service, 1.25 percent of trips are completed fastest by mass transit, and 17.66 percent of…
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Benefit
Date Posted
03/20/2018
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Transit Stop Request (PT15), Route ID for the Visually Impaired (PT16), Shared Use Mobility and Dynamic Ridesharing (TI06)
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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