Evaluation of Alternative Truck Lane Management Strategies Along a Section of I-81

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech Transportation Instituteen
dc.contributorCostello, Seosamh B.en
dc.contributor.authorRakha, Hesham A.en
dc.date.accessed2015-06-30en
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-31T20:05:16Zen
dc.date.available2015-07-31T20:05:16Zen
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.description.abstractI-81 is one of the top eight truck routes in the U.S. In the state of Virginia, I-81 traverses 325.51 miles from Tennessee in the south to the West Virginia border in the north and passes through 12 counties. The highway was designed for a 15 percent truck volume, however trucks now account for somewhere between 20 to 40 percent of the total traffic volume. In 2001, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) developed a list of key improvements for I-81. The improvements include: developing the corridor as a multi-modal facility, incorporating a high degree of efficiency and safety for all users, which may include the physical separation of commercial and passenger vehicles; considering transit or other higher occupancy travel in and around growing urban areas, and using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) as short-, mid-, and long-term solutions to improving transportation flow and management (VDOT 2004). In 2003, a U.S. house transportation bill included $1.5 billion in federal funding for dedicated truck lanes. According to Representative Don Young (Alaska), author of the bill and a strong proponent of truck-only lanes; Separate lanes for trucks will move freight more efficiently and make our highways significantly safer.en
dc.description.sponsorshipVirginia. Department of Transportationen
dc.format.extent91 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationRakha, H. A. (2010). Evaluation of alternative truck lane management strategies along a section of i-81. (DOT HS 812 043). Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Retrieved from http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/47000/47000/47021/VT-2008-03.pdf.en
dc.identifier.govdocVT-2008-03en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/55104en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://ntl.bts.gov/lib/47000/47000/47021/VT-2008-03.pdfen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Tech. Virginia Tech Transportation Instituteen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectInterstate highwaysen
dc.subjectTruckingen
dc.subjectTraffic volumeen
dc.subjectHighway capacityen
dc.subjectTruck facilitiesen
dc.subjectMultimodal transportationen
dc.subjectTruck lanesen
dc.subjectIntelligent transportation systems (ITS)en
dc.subjectTraffic simulationen
dc.subjectExpress highways--Virginiaen
dc.subjectTraffic flowen
dc.subjectHighway capacityen
dc.subjectTruck lanesen
dc.subjectRoads--safety measuresen
dc.subjectIntelligent transportation systems (ITS)en
dc.subjectTrucking industryen
dc.subjectHighway safetyen
dc.subjectTraffic flowen
dc.titleEvaluation of Alternative Truck Lane Management Strategies Along a Section of I-81en
dc.typeGovernment documenten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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