Ramp meters on trial: Evidence from the Twin Cities metering holiday

Ramp meters on trial: Evidence from the Twin Cities metering holiday

Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been the subject of a recent test of their effectiveness, involving turning them off for eight weeks. This paper analyzes the results with and without ramp metering for several representative freeways during the afternoon peak period. Seven performance measures: mobility, equity, productivity, consumers’ surplus, accessibility, travel time variation and trave...

Ramp Meters on Trial: Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meters Shut-off

Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been the subject of a recent test of their effectiveness, involving turning them off for 8 weeks. This paper analyzes the results with and without ramp metering for several representative freeways during the afternoon peak period, depending on data availability. Seven performance measures: accessibility, mobility, equity, productivity, consumer surplus, trave...

EVALUATING EFFECTIVENESS OF RAMP METERS Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut-off

Ramp meters in the Twin Cities have been turned off for eight weeks in fall 2000 in an experiment testing their effectiveness. This chapter analyzes the data collected during the experiment on several representative freeways during the afternoon peak period. Several performance measures for ramp metering including mobility, equity, consumers’ surplus, productivity, accessibility, and travel tim...

Twin Cities Ramp Meter Evaluation - Final Report

Traffic Diversion Resulting from Ramp Metering