Work Efforts included:

• Compilation / collection of existing transportation data including intersection and daily traffic counts, lane by lane utilization, signal timing, vehicle occupancy, bus routes and stops and bus ridership
• Evaluated opening year traffic operations
• Considered multiple scenarios including buses and right turns, buses and right turns and HOV2+, buses and right turns and HOV3+
• Evaluated person throughput
• Evaluated transit travel time improvements
• Performed Synchro and VISSIM traffic simulation
• Developed alternatives, concept designs, and costs to improve traffic operations under a managed lane condition
• Presented findings to DOT leadership, and MTA and SHA stakeholders
• Prepared technical memorandum documenting methodology and findings
• Prepared cost-benefit analysis in support of a winning $10 Million TIGER Grant