Minnesota Urban Partnership Agreement National Evaluation

The Urban Partnership Agreement (UPA) initiative was undertaken by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) to reduce congestion using four complementary strategies: tolling, transit, telecommuting/TDM, and technology (4Ts). The U.S. DOT selected Minnesota as an Urban Partner. The Minnesota UPA focuses on projects to reduce congestion in the I-35W corridor and in downtown Minneapolis. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies underlie numerous Minnesota UPA projects, including high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, a priced dynamic shoulder lane (PDSL), active traffic management, real-time transit and traffic information, and lane guidance for shoulder-running buses. The U.S. DOT is sponsoring an evaluation of all the UPA sites. This paper highlights the initial results from the Minnesota UPA projects.

• Record URL:
  http://itswc.confex.com/itswc/WC2011/webprogram/Paper2904.html
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Turnbull, Katherine F
  • Rupert, Robert
  • Lamothe, Craig
  • Thompson, Nick
  • Abegg, Mike
• Conference:
  • 18th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 2011-10-16 to 2011-10-20
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: 18th ITS World Congress, Orlando, 2011. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver information systems; Evaluation; High occupancy toll lanes; Highway traffic control
• Identifier Terms: Urban Partnership Agreements
• Uncontrolled Terms: Active traffic management
• Geographic Terms: Minnesota
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01487245
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2013 1:53PM