The aim of this study were to identify corridors that are feasible candidates for the implementation of high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, to conduct and analyze a commuter survey data to determine the feasibility of implementing value pricing in a corridor or corridors of the study area as well as survey stakeholders¿ opinions. The study area spans I-40 from the Davie and Forsyth County boundary to the divergence of I-85 and I-40 in Orange County.
Our study was divided into three parts:A literature review of value pricing among ongoing programs in the United States;2). A baseline analysis of the study area, including population and economic characteristics, current traffic volumes, road capacities and forecasted traffic along I-40 in the study are; andImplementation and analysis of a commuter survey and completion of a stakeholders survey.
We present three possibilities (with the customary ¿do nothing¿ alternative as the fourth, but undesirable alternative):Construct a new mixed-flow lane,Construct a HOT lane within the next ten years, orInitially construct HOV lanes with the possibility of turning them into HOT lanes within the next ten years.
