“I-25 HOV Express Lanes” – I-25, Denver, CO, HOT Lanes Project

Project Description Project Goals The I-25 Bus/HOV lanes, also known as The goal of the I-25 Express Downtown Express lanes, consists of a two- Lanes is to make better use of an lane barrier-separated reversible facility in the underutilized HOV lane without median of I-25 between downtown Denver degrading service for carpoolers and 70th Avenue, a distance of 6.6 miles. and transit. Pricing Parameters Project Length • Fixed time-of-day pricing 9 miles • Operates: Southbound 5:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Number of HOT lanes ° 2-lane reversible ° Northbound 5:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. • Toll free for: Midpoint Access ° HOV 2+ carpools No midpoint access ° Transit buses ° Emergency vehicles Lane Separation Motorcycles Concrete barrier ° ° Hybrid vehicles with permit, program expired December 2009 but may be Daily Traffic extended 11,803 (July 2009) • Toll Rate - $0.50 to $4.50

Capital Costs Approximately $10 million Unique Features • In January 2009 the “License Plate Toll” program was implemented so Operating Costs transponders are no longer required Approximately $2.4 million, annually • Carpools are separated from SOVs at tolling point Revenue Approximately $5.4 million annually, including fines and fees Project Support 41 percent of users utilized the lanes 16 or more days per month. 22 percent used the Project Contact lanes at least 21 days per month. 62 percent of Reza Akhavan survey respondents say they use the express Colorado Department of lanes because it saves time. 18 percent say Transportation they use the lanes because it is less stressful [email protected] than the regular lanes. (303) 757-9459

Jane Hann Project Website Colorado Department of http://www.coloradodot.info/programs/tolling/i-25-hov-express-lanes Transportation [email protected] (303) 7579397

HOT0901.0410.20 Version 1 8/23/10 “Northwest U.S. 290 QuickRide” – U.S. 290, Houston, TX, HOV to HOT Conversion Project

Project Description Project Goals The U.S. 290 “Northwest Freeway” The “Northwest Freeway” QuickRide facility HOV lane was initially built to on U.S. 290 in Houston is an expansion of the reduce congestion in the corridor program that was begun on Houston’s Katy by providing an incentive for people Freeway (I-10) facility in 1998. The QuickRide to carpool, but the minimum HOV2 program requires the use of a transponder requirement was changed to minimum to participate in the program. With the HOV3 in 1988 due to high levels of conversion to dynamically-priced HOT lanes, congestion on the facility. After HOV2 QuickRide will be replaced by an EZtag (or was eliminated, the raised occupancy METRO equivalent). restrictions resulted in the HOV lane being underutilized during peak hours. In November 2000, Houston’s Pricing Parameters QuickRide program was introduced • SOVs prohibited at all times under on this facility to allow HOV2 vehicles QuickRide, but will be permitted under access without overwhelming the the new HOT lane system unless the system. METRO hopes to use the new HOT lane program to maximize lane becomes congested. lane use and preserve an approximate • Toll currently free for: speed of 50 mph on the facility, which would improve METRO bus service ° Registered 3+ carpools on-time performance. ° Buses Project Length ° Emergency vehicles 13.5 miles ° Motorcycles Number of HOT lanes • QuickRide toll rate - $2.00 for HOV2 1 reversible lane during peak hours • QuickRide operates Mon – Fri Midpoint Access during morning peak hours No at-grade midpoint access; (6:45 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.). all access is via dedicated direct connectors designed for transit

Lane Separation Unique Features Concrete barrier separation • One reversible lane in median with bar- rier separation Daily Traffic • Close integration with METRO’s Park & Under QuickRide there are approximately 7,700 “free” vehicles in Ride and Express bus services the HOT lane and 75 paying vehicles, but these numbers can vary greatly from day to day; when conversion to Project Support a managed lane is complete, the goal For both QuickRide users and non- will be a level of service of about 1,500 QuickRide participants, the most important vehicles per hour benefit for using the HOV lane is to save travel time. The perception of several focus Capital Costs group participants was that HOV lane use $50,000 (2005) saved as much as 50 percent of total commute Operating Costs travel time. Another important benefit to $140,000 annually users of the HOV lane is safety. Reliability was not as highly rated as travel-time savings Revenue and safety. $155,000 annually Project Website Project Contact Hameed Merchant http://www.ridemetro.org/ [email protected] TransportationServices/HOV_locations/ (713) 615-6307 HOV_system.asp

HOT0901.0410.20 Version 1 8/23/10 DRAFT “95 Express” – I-95, Miami, FL, HOV to HOT Conversion Project

Project Description Project Goals 95 Express is one of several FDOT HOV lanes on I-95 are being converted to operational improvements designed HOT lanes in three phases. The general to reduce congestion and make purpose lanes are restriped and two express I-95 a better experience for drivers, lanes are added resulting maintaining” the residents, and transit users alike. existing number of GPLs while “adding” the Ultimately, 95 Express will create additional HOT lane. Phase 1A opened in more travel options and encourage December 2008 and runs northbound from use of public transportation and the Golden Glades Interchange just north of carpooling. The goal is to keep 151st Street in Miami-Dade County. Phase 1B Photo courtesy Jeffrey Katz traffic moving at a minimum speed opened in January 2010 and runs southbound of 45 miles per hour, while offering from the Golden Glades area to I-395. Phase transit riders a seamless connection 1B also includes extending the northbound between Miami-Dade and Broward counties on 95 Express buses. lanes to the south from the Golden Glades Interchange to I-395. This section opened in Project Length early 2010. Phase 2 will extend the express Currently open: 7.3 miles both lanes to provide a continuous facility directions without the 1 lane Flyover; between the Golden Glades Interchange and ~9.5 miles with the Flyover Broward Boulevard in Broward County. Completed Project: 22 miles, both directions Pricing Parameters • Full time operation with dynamic Photo courtesy Jeffrey Katz Number of HOT lanes tolling 2 in each direction • Toll free for: Midpoint Access ° Registered 3+ carpools Currently open: (NB) 2 entrances; ° Registered vanpools 3 exits (SB) 3 entrances; 2 exits ° County School Buses Completed project: (NB) 4 entrances; 5 exits (SB) 5 entrances, 4 exits ° Registered hybrid vehicles ° Motorcycles Lane Separation Flexible plastic poles • Toll Range: ° Minimum $0.25 to Maximum $7.10 Daily Traffic ° Average Peak Period tolls equal Average weekday traffic: 22,000 $1.60 (SB) and $1.90 (NB) vehicles per day, northbound only; expected to be 55,000 vehicles per day • Must have Sunpass transponder with both directions open • No 3+ axle trucks allowed in Express lanes Capital Costs Approximately $124 million for Photo courtesy Jeffrey Katz Phase 1 Unique Features • Multidisciplinary fast-track project Operating Costs Approximately $7.5 million per year • Developed in physically constrained corridor, previously toll-free • Requires registration for carpools, vanpools and hybrid vehicles Revenue Phase 1A (NB open only) - $5.3MM • Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service between Broward and Miami-Dade counties Phase 1B (Since Jan 2010) - $6.6MM total to date Project Support Project Contact • 76 percent say the project has provided faster, more reliable service Rory Santana • 56 percent want the project expanded Florida Department of Transportation [email protected] Project Website (305) 470-6934 http://www.95express.com/ HOT0901.1001.20 “MnPASS Express Lanes” – I-394, Minneapolis, HOV to HOT Conversion Project

Project Description Project Goals The MnPASS project began with The project is a conversion of the HOV several goals to: lane to a HOT lane. It allows single • Improve the efficiency of I-394 by occupant drivers access to the HOV lane by increasing the carrying capacity electronically paying a toll. There are two of HOV lanes, in terms of both sections of the project. There is an 8-mile individuals and vehicles section from Wayzata to MN 100 separated • Maintain free-flow speeds by a painted barrier and a 3-mile reversible (45 mph) for transit and carpools section from MN 100 to I-94 in downtown in the express lanes Minneapolis. The project opened in May 2005. • Use excess revenues, if available, to make transit and highway improvements in the Pricing Parameters I-394 corridor • Western 8-mile section is open to solo • Collect tolls electronically drivers paying a toll Monday through • Employ the latest technologies to Friday 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to manage traffic and enforce laws 7 p.m.; the lane is open to general traffic in the lane, including dynamic the rest of the day pricing and in-vehicle electronic enforcement. • Reversible section is always tolled; Eastbound from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. and westbound from 2 p.m. to 5 a.m.; it is Project Length 11 miles total, 8 miles in concurrent closed other times section, 3 miles reversible barrier • Prices set dynamically based on demand separated • Must have MnPASS transponder, if solo Number of HOT lanes driver; $1.50/month leasing fee The 8 mile segment has one in each • 2+ carpools, vanpools, transit, direction, but the reversible is two motorcycles travel toll free lanes in each direction. • Toll Rate – varies between sections Midpoint Access between $0.25 and $8.00. Average toll Eastbound: 5 entry/exit locations during peak period is $1.00 - $4.00 Westbound: 6 entry/exit locations

Lane Separation Unique Features Double white line paint stripe in • Implemented as a public-private partnership 8 mile section; concrete barrier separation in 3-mile section • Tolling on lanes directly adjacent to non-barrier separated lanes with multiple access and egress points Daily Traffic • Dynamic pricing applications on multiple consecutive segments Approximately 150,000 vehicles • Technology applications to assist enforcement Capital Costs Approximately $10 million Project Support Operating Costs • 91 percent enrolled in MnPASS expressed satisfaction with the program $1.2 million annually • 84 percent agreed or strongly agreed that the lanes provided them with “a fast, safe Revenue reliable commute every time” Just over $1 million annually

Project Contact Project Website Ken Buckeye www.mnpass.net Minnesota Department of Transportation [email protected] (651) 366-3737

HOT0901.0410.20 Version 1 8/23/10 “I-35W MnPASS” – I-35W, Minneapolis, MN, HOV to HOT Conversion and Shoulder to HOT Conversion Project

Project Description Project Goals The I-35W project, as part of the Following the success of the I-394 MnPass Urban Partnership Agreement, project, the Minnesota Department of seeks to: Transportation has implemented a HOT lane project on I-35W south of downtown • Reduce congestion Minneapolis. The MnPASS Lanes on 35W • Improve transit service opened on September 30, 2009. • Increase attractiveness of transit service At this time, the northbound and • Provide choices for commuters to southbound lanes between Hwy. 13 and avoid congestion Hwy. 62, and the northbound lane from 42nd St to downtown, are available. In late 2010, the I-35W crosstown sections between The project will provide a congestion free HOT/BRT lane from Burnsville 66th St. and 42nd St will be available in both directions. The eventual project will be Parkway to downtown Minneapolis 16 miles comprised of converting the HOV lane and/or the shoulder to a HOT lane. Project Length Northbound: 14 miles Pricing Parameters Southbound: 11.5 miles • The northbound and southbound sections of I-35W south of I-494 and Number of HOT lanes the northbound section of I-35W 1 in each direction at 42nd Street are tolled during the Midpoint Access following hours: Northbound: 9 entry/exit locations ° Northbound from TH 13 to Southbound: 7 entry/exits locations Hwy. 62 from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. ° Northbound from 42nd Street to Lane Separation downtown will always be tolled when open to traffic Striped separation ° Southbound from I-494 to TH 13 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Daily Traffic • During the off-peak hours the lanes are not tolled and open to general traffic with the Approximately 210,000 average daily exception of northbound from 42nd Street to downtown. traffic in the corridor • Must have MnPass transponder, if solo driver; $1.50/month leasing fee Capital Costs • 2+ carpools, vanpools, transit, motorcycles travel toll free Approximately $50 million for roadway improvements and ITS • Dynamically priced based on demand infrastructure • Toll rate – varies between sections between $0.25 and $8.00; Average toll during peak Operating Costs period is $1.00 - $3.00. Operating costs for the MnPASS system, including I-394 and I-35W Unique Features are approximately $2 million per year, including enforcement • Price Dynamic Shoulder Lane (PDSL) equipped to operate as a MnPASS lane during peak periods to maximize capacity on existing roadways Revenue • Electronic signs alert drivers whether the PDSL is open or closed Revenues for the second year of MnPASS operation on I-394 and • Variable speed limits in the adjacent non-tolled lanes I-35W are expected to be between • Coordination with business in the corridor to offer flex schedules and telework $2 million and $4 million; I-35W revenues are expected to be about $1 million Project Support Project Contact • 91 percent enrolled in MnPASS expressed satisfaction with the program Nick Thompson • 84 percent agreed or strongly agreed that the lanes provided them with “a fast, safe Minnesota Department of reliable commute every time” Transportation Operations Manager [email protected] Project Website (651) 366-3152 www.mnpass.net HOT0901.0410.20 www.dot.state.mn.us/upa Version 1 8/23/10 “I-15 FasTrak® Express Lanes”– I-15, San Diego, CA, Managed Lanes Project

Project Description Project Goals This project builds on the success of the existing eight-mile reversible HOV lanes on I-15 and The goal of the I-15 Express Lanes ® is to keep traffic moving through expands SANDAG’s FasTrak road pricing program by creating a four-lane managed lane facility the I-15 corridor, adjusting as for a total of 20-miles. needed to accommodate increased congestion or special events. The Express Lanes Managed Lanes Express Lanes are designed to offer • 8 miles long 0 • 2 miles long multiple choices for commuters • 2 lanes • 4 lanes and were created to provide • Reversible • Movable Barrier vanpools, carpools, and express bus and FasTrak® customers with • Peak direction • Bi- directional a smoother, quicker, and more • Focus on weekdays • Open all week reliable trip along the booming • Access at two ends only • Multiple access I-15 corridor. The Express Lanes also help ease demand on the Pricing Parameters general purpose lanes, benefiting all commuters and contributing to a • Distance-based dynamic pricing for SOVs “greener” community as commuters to maintain LOS C realize both the environmental and • New 8-mile Middle Segment operates on economic benefits of ridesharing and a 24/7 basis public transit. • Existing 8-mile South Segment as follows: ° Monday – Thursday Project Length Southbound: 5:30 a.m. – noon 20 miles (16 miles currently open) Northbound: 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. ° Friday a.m. Number of HOT lanes Southbound: 5:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. 4 lanes (2+2 or 3+1 configuration) ° Friday p.m., Saturday, Sunday Northbound: 5 p.m. on Friday to 5 Midpoint Access a.m. the following Monday 5 BRT direct accesses and Toll free for: 6 at-grade access points ° HOV 2+ carpools ° Transit buses Lane Separation ° Emergency vehicles Concrete exterior with moveable ° Motorcycles (zipper) barrier interior ° Clean air permitted vehicles Daily Traffic • Toll Rate - $0.50 to $8.00 2,069,153 FasTrak® trips in 2010 • No transponder required for HOVs. SOVs must mount a transponder on their vehicle Capital Costs The total cost for the freeway improvements, including expansion Unique Features ® of FasTrak and the transit elements • A BRT system operates in the managed lanes. Transit stations and park-and-ride lots of the I-15 Express Lanes, is are located along I-15 and will be connected to the managed lanes with direct access estimated to be approximately ® $1.4 billion in current dollars. ramps. These ramps allow BRT buses, carpoolers, and I-15 FasTrak customers to (www.keepsandiegomoving.com) bypass freeway on-ramps. • A moveable barrier maximizes express lane capacity by configuring the lanes with the Operating Costs flow of traffic. This accommodates increased congestion during peak hours and handle FY 2010 – $3.125 million with $500k incidents and special events. going to transit

Revenue Project Support FY 2010 – $3.3 million Public feedback has shown that I-15 FasTrak® customers, transit riders, and other corri- dor commuters overwhelmingly support the FasTrak project and its expansion on the I-15 Project Contact Express Lanes. Ingrid Weisenbach Chris Burke [email protected] [email protected] Project Website (619) 699-6920 (619) 699-1934 http://www.keepsandiegomoving.com/I-15-intro.html http://fastrak.511sd.com/index.aspx http://www.sandag.org/index.asp?projectid=67&fusecation=projects.detail HOT0901.0410.20 Version 1 2/2/11 “SR 167 HOT Lanes Pilot Project” – SR 167, Seattle, WA HOT Lanes Project

Project Description Project Goals SR 167 is a pilot project with the The project is located approximately following goals (established by the 12 miles southeast of downtown Seattle. legislature): An existing nine-mile HOV lane was converted to a HOT lane between Renton At a minimum, the department shall and Auburn. The project began operating provide facility use data and review in May 2008. the impacts on: • Freeway efficiency and safety; Pricing Parameters • Effectiveness for transit; • Dynamic pricing based on real time • Person and vehicle movements conditions by mode; • Operates: 5:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., • Ability to finance improvements 7 days per week and transportation services through tolls; and • Toll free for: • The impacts on all highway users. ° HOV 2+ carpools ° vanpools The Washington Department ° Transit buses of Transportation shall analyze ° Motorcycles aggregate use data and conduct, as needed, separate surveys to assess • Toll Rate - $0.50 to $9.00 usage of the facility in relation to • No trucks over 10,000 gross weight geographic, socioeconomic, and pounds demographic information within the corridor in order to ascertain actual and perceived questions of equitable use of the facility. Unique Features • Lane is open to general purpose traffic Project Length at other times 9 miles southbound • Shield used to cover transponder when 11 miles northbound carpooling Number of HOT lanes 1 in each direction Project Support Midpoint Access During the first 12 months, customers Northbound: 6 access locations opened about 1,500 new Good To Go! accounts per month. The transponders are Southbound: 4 access locations good for travel on the SR 167 HOT lanes and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. In the Lane Separation Double white line 2009 SR 167 user survey, nearly two-thirds of respondents stated they were either very Daily Traffic likely or somewhat likely to use the HOT Approximately 2,000 tolled trips lanes in the future. per weekday Project Website Capital Costs Approximately $18 million www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr167/hotlanes

Operating Costs Approximately $2.4 million, annually

Revenue Project Contacts Approximately $316,000, Patty Rubstello Tyler Patterson May 2008 – April 2009 WSDOT – Toll Division WSDOT – Toll Division [email protected] [email protected] (206) 4641299 (206) 716.1134

HOT0901.0410.20 Version 1 8/23/10 “I-15 Express Lanes” – I-15, Salt Lake City, UT, HOV to HOT Conversion Project

Project Description Project Goals The conversion of the I-15 Express The I-15 Express Lanes in Salt Lake City, Lanes to the Express Pass payment Utah, are HOT lanes that allow solo drivers system in fall 2010 will eliminate the to use the lanes for a fee. Implementation of $50/month flat fee for SOVs and this fee began September 2006 with a decal replace it with a four-zone dynamic system. In early 2010, installation of an pricing scenario. This will allow electronic payment system is scheduled, with UDOT to better manage traffic on the system expected to go live in fall 2010. I-15, by ensuring that carpooling A 4.1-mile extension of the corridor, called remains a viable alternative to the EXPRESSLink, is due to be completed at the general-purpose lanes. Revenues same time. will be used to operate and maintain the Express Lanes facility. Pricing Parameters • Toll free for: Project Length 38 miles ° 2+ carpools ° Buses Number of HOT lanes ° Emergency vehicles Two lanes, one in each direction ° Motorcycles ° Select clean-fuel vehicles Midpoint Access Multiple access locations (14) • Toll Rate - $50 per month for SOVs spread throughout the facility. • SOVs must show Express Lanes decal

15 END NB EXPRESS LANE START SB EXPRESS Lane Separation Unique Features 14 LANE Painted stripe • Flat monthly fee paid for access by 13 SOVs, provided extra capacity is 12 Capital Costs available. 11

$125 million for EXPRESSLink 10 expansion Project Website 9 8 Project Contact http://www.udot.utah.gov/expresslanes/ 7 Catherine Cutler

[email protected] 6 (801) 887-3449

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INGRESS AND EGRESS LOCATIONS 6N/6S - AT SR-140 (INGRESS/ EGRESS) FOR THE EXPRESS LANE ALONG 7N/7S - AT SR-71 (12300 SOUTH) (INGRESS/ EGRESS) I-15 8N/8S - AT SR-151 (10600 SOUTH) (INGRESS/ EGRESS) 9N/9S - AT 9000 SOUTH (INGRESS/ EGRESS) START/ END POINT OF I-15 10N/10B - AT SR-48 (7200 SOUTH) (INGRESS/EGRESS) (SB EXPRESS LANES AND NB NOT SAME) 11N/11S - AT SR-173 (5300 SOUTH) (INGRESS/ EGRESS) DEDICATED 400 SOUTH EXPRESS 12N/12S - AT SR- 266 (4500 SOUTH) (INGRESS/ EGRESS) LANE 13N/13S - AT SR-171 (3300 SOUTH) (INGRESS/ EGRESS) EXIT AND ENTRANCE LOCATIONS 14N/14S - NORTH OF SR-201 WESTBOUND (INGRESS/ EGRESS) START SOUTHBOUND EXPRESS LANE 15N - DEDICATED 400 SOUTH (EGRESS DIRECT) END NORTHBOUND EXPRESS LANE 15S - DEDICATED 400 SOUTH (INGRESS DIRECT) MAP 1 OF 2

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