I-35W URBAN CORRIDOR DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

The purpose of the I-35W Urban Corridor Demonstration Project is to implement and evaluate the Bus-on-Metered Freeway System. The system includes the following elements: Metering of an urban radial freeway; a real-time surveillance, command and control system; extensive express bus service in the corridor; priority access to the freeway via express bus ramps; and provision of transit passenger amenities, i.e., bus shelters, signs, and park-and-ride facilities. The complete system, located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, became operational in April 1974. Goals of the Urban Corridor Demonstration Program include: demonstrating the impact of a coordinated use of FHWA and UMTA programs in alleviating peak hour congestion in heavily used traffic corridors; improving the efficiency of existing transportation facilities in terms of people moving capability; encouragement of urban areas to coordinate planning of highway and transit improvements to obtain maximum impact; and improvement of peak hour traffic flow in the project cities and documentation of results for national application.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared by Bather-Ringrose-Wolsfeld, Inc., Edina, Minn.
• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Council of Twin Cities

  Metropolitan Square Building
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55105

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Bather-Ringrose-Wolsfeld, Incorporated

  7101 York Avenue South
  Edina, MN  United States  55435
• Publication Date: 1975-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 445 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus stop shelters; Buses; Cost effectiveness; Demonstration projects; Environmental impacts; Express buses; Freeways; Highway traffic control; Park and ride; Parking facilities; Ramps; Surveillance; Traffic congestion; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Traffic surveillance; Transportation corridors; Transportation operations; Urban growth; Urban highways; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation management
• Geographic Terms: Minnesota
• Old TRIS Terms: Metering; Urban corridors
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093620
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt., UMTA-DC-06-0062-75-1
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-11-7953
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 4 1981 12:00AM