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  title info:
    title: Preferential lane use for heavy trucks
  name:
    name part: Chrysler, Susan T.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M Transportation Institute
    name part: Transportation Policy Research Center,
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (29 pages) : color illustrations
  abstract: "Freight movement is vital to the state of Texas and the nation. With several major ports, through-truck routes, and distribution centers, Texas roadways carry millions of tons of freight each year. However, congestion on Texas roadways creates delay for commercial freight vehicles, leading to increases in transportation costs for shippers, which may in turn drive up costs to consumers. In fact, the American Trucking Research Institute (ATRI) ranked Texas second in the nation for the cost of congestion to the freight industry in terms of operating costs and lost productivity (1). One potential method for reducing the cost of congestion for freight vehicles, and possibly reducing congestion for all vehicles, is to provide trucks with alternate routes or separate (preferential) lanes that allow them to bypass congestion. This can be accomplished by developing new facilities or converting lanes and/or whole facilities for exclusive use by trucks. However, these options would require the development of new infrastructure, which could require significant funding, or the conversion of general purpose lanes to truck-only lanes, which could be problematic from a public acceptance standpoint and may affect the operations of the other lanes. There are currently very few truck-only lanes or facilities in the United States, and in most cases, these facilities were developed in very specific conditions with exceptionally high freight volumes, such as roadways serving ports. As such, existing freight volumes might not warrant consideration of truck-only lanes or facilities in many areas. One idea that is being explored in some urban areas is to allow trucks access to managed lane facilities. Managed lane facilities typically involve general purpose lanes that are open to all vehicles but have separate (managed) lanes for special classes of vehicles. In most cases, these special classes include high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) or transit vehicles. Furthermore, some facilities may al…
  note: author, Susan T. Chrysler.
  note: "PRC 15-39 F."
  note: "Final report ... Transportation Policy Research Center"--PDF image of cover.
  note: "July 2016."
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-29).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Traffic congestion
    geographic: Texas
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Trucks
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Managed lanes (Traffic engineering)
    geographic: Texas
  classification: HE336.C64 C47 2016
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Preferential lane use for heavy trucks
    name:
      name part: Chrysler, Susan T.
    origin info:
      publisher: [College Station, Texas] : Texas A & M Transportation Institute, 2016
    identifier: (OCoLC)960045396
  identifier: http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/PRC-15-39-F.pdf
  record info:
    record content source: 655TXA
    record creation date: 170928
    record change date: 20170928174617.0
    record identifier: in00003894276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng