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Speed photo-radar enforcement decreased average car speeds in work zones up to 7.9 mi/hr in median lanes and 7.7 mi/hr in shoulder lanes at highway work zones, being equally as effective as the presence of police patrols with emergency lights off.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/02/2013 | Source Date:
Annual boardings for the I-85 Xpress bus service increased seven percent, more than twice as fast as Xpress bus services in other areas of the city after HOT lanes were implemented to address congestion on I-85 in Atlanta.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 10/02/2013 | Source Date:
Break even point calculated for an incident response program: reducing 30 seconds per incident results in $711,300 reduction in costs of delay, equivalent to the cost of operating the incident response program for a year.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
Decision Support System scenarios modeled on the ICM Corridor in Dallas Texas show travel time savings of 9 percent on arterials when vehicles divert from the freeway.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 09/17/2013 | Source Date:
Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems can reduce the risk of fatal crashes by 33 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
Korean study finds Automatic Crash Information Notification Systems would reduce freeway fatalities by 11.8 to 18.1 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
A simulation model used to manage work zone mobility reduced delay; saved travelers more than $1.63 million per day during reconstruction at the I-75/I-96 interchange in Detroit.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 08/19/2013 | Source Date:
Benefits from an initial HOT lanes deployment in Minneapolis St. Paul were maintained in the long term, while a system expansion resulted in fewer benefits, but at a much cheaper cost.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 07/15/2013 | Source Date:
The implementation of ramp metering in Kansas City increased corridor throughput by as much as 20 percent and improved incident clearance by an average of four minutes, with these benefits remaining consistent in the long term.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 07/15/2013 | Source Date:
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) achieved a 92 percent accuracy rate for real-time bus arrival prediction, building from AVL/CAD technology to include GPS.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 07/12/2013 | Source Date:
ITS Deployment Evaluation

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