TANDEM TOLL BOOTHS FOR THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

Many toll plazas are constrained in width by buildings or other physical barriers. These barriers may make the cost of adding toll lanes prohibitive. One method for increasing the capacity of a toll facility without increasing its width is to use tandem toll booths. A tandem toll booth consists of two toll takers in a single toll lane both serving alternating sets of vehicles simultaneously. The capacity of tandem toll booths is calculated with time-space diagrams and the cumulative headway distributions of vehicles at a conventional toll booth. The capacity depends on the maximum of two random variables, which correspond to the service times at the two booths, and is found by taking the product of their cumulative headway distributions. Adjacent tandem toll booths were found to increase the capacity of the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza by about 15 percent, and batch tandem toll booths increase capacity by 25 percent or more. Thus, tandem toll booths would eliminate the queueing that now exists during the morning commute period without the cost of expanding the toll plaza's width. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Hall, Randolph W
  • Daganzo, Carlos F
• Conference:
  • 62nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1983-1-17 to 1983-1-21
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 7-14
• Monograph Title: TRAFFIC FLOW, CAPACITY, AND MEASUREMENTS
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 905
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Headways; Physical distribution; Queuing; Toll bridges; Tolls
• Identifier Terms: Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Capacity
• Old TRIS Terms: Tandem tolls
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378812
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-036 179
• Files: HSL, TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM