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The Suitability of High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes for Additional US Cities: A Cincinnati, OH Case Study

Von Allmen, Robert M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307985445

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2011, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning.
Highway congestion negatively impacts people and cities everyday throughout the US. Transportation planners are continuing to develop new tools and measures in order to mitigate the negative impacts of highway congestion. High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, a form of managed lanes, have been used in US cities since the 1970’s as one such tool (TRB 1998). Transportation planning offices at the federal level have developed manuals to help municipalities conduct planning processes to determine if congested highways within their prospective jurisdictions are good candidates for HOV lanes. This thesis involved conducting some of the prescribed planning processes found in these manuals for an area which has yet to conduct any extensive HOV lane planning process, the Greater Cincinnati, OH area. The highway segment chosen to study is I-75 between the interchange at I-74 and the interchange at I-275. In a sketch planning exercise, used to compare different highway candidates for the future implementation of an HOV lane, the I-75 corridor in Cincinnati proved to be the most suitable in light of four planning criteria. In an alternative planning exercise, used to compare multiple alternatives to see which would provide the greatest impact on a specific highway segment, adding a HOV lane to I-75 was found to yield a higher person throughput than the other two alternatives. Additional factors must be considered and are expanded on in the conclusions, but based on these two positive results, it is argued that the implementation of an HOV lane should be more seriously considered by local transportation planners as a way to mitigate traffic congestion on I-75.
Christopher Auffrey, PhD (Committee Chair)
Heng Wei, PhD (Committee Member)
72 p.
Urban Planning

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  • Von Allmen, R. M. (2011). The Suitability of High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes for Additional US Cities: A Cincinnati, OH Case Study [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307985445

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Von Allmen, Robert. The Suitability of High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes for Additional US Cities: A Cincinnati, OH Case Study. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307985445.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Von Allmen, Robert. "The Suitability of High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes for Additional US Cities: A Cincinnati, OH Case Study." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307985445

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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