Houston Needs Innovative Traffic Solutions

Can combining technology, incentives and HOV lanes solve Houston's traffic problems?

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May 18, 2005, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"We need to fill in gaps and augment the existing HOV lanes with a comprehensive network of Managed eXpress, or MaX, lanes that can link all our neighborhoods to all our job centers. This can be rapidly accomplished by converting the left lanes of freeways like the 610 Loop to EZ-tag toll lanes with congestion-based pricing. By adjusting pricing by time-of-day (free outside of rush hours), the lanes can move the maximum number of vehicles at maximum speed (which would actually reduce the number of cars in the remaining free lanes), while still being free to buses, van- and carpools."

Thanks to Tory Gattis

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