Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Mixing HOT lans and high speed protected lanes

Easy to do if the protected lane(s) are center and HOT lanes just outside.  Then we can create merge zones.

Important along the Interstate 15 speedway project.  We want to purchase virtual exchange services from the existing HOT and regular lanes.  Vehicles from the protected speedway, slowed down to human driver rules, should lease existing exchange usage, rather than build anew.

Traffic bandwidth can be bought, by the day, the rate, or many other terms.  Traffic light priority and extension has a price.  Sell yield rights.  All of this makes is much easier to fund the DOT services and get a continuous high speed bus path.  Start pre-selling traffic bandwidth along the I-15 corridor, today, promise much higher speeds, up to 120; much longer articulated vehicles, and point to point logistics by way of virtual lanes.

Compatible transponders
Standard across the industry, so vehicles in the HOT lanes get beepers from the fast movers in protected lanes.

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