{"id":309,"date":"2015-10-01T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/01\/7-results-of-texas-variable-speed-pilot-study-3-procurement-opportunities-abound\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:29:00","slug":"7-results-of-texas-variable-speed-pilot-study-3-procurement-opportunities-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/7-results-of-texas-variable-speed-pilot-study-3-procurement-opportunities-abound\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Results of Texas Variable Speed Pilot Study. 3+ Procurement Opportunities Abound."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What group studied variable speeds on Texas roads?\u00a0<\/strong>Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&amp;Bill=HB2204\">HB 2204<\/a> from 2013 legislation required it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What roadways did TTI study?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 12\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:none;\">\n<li>\n<p>\uf0b7 \u00a0Urban Congestion Site: Westbound (WB) State Loop (SL) 1604 between US 281 and IH-10, San Antonio<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\uf0b7 \u00a0Construction Work Zone Site: IH-35 northbound (NB), MM 297 \u2013 MM 301, Temple<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\uf0b7 \u00a0Weather-Related Site: Eastbound (EB) and WB IH-20 at Ranger Hill, Eastland County<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What was the result?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, variable speed would be beneficial to address congestion, weather and construction, but they have 7 suggestions:<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 20\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Use permanent equipment \u00a0<strong><em>(procurement opportunity)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A wider separation of the sensors and signs\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Utilize a more comprehensive and rigorous site selection process \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Account for more failure conditions in both equipment and communications<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Improve the overall algorithm\u00a0<strong><em>(procurement opportunity)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Real-time data exchange to other agencies, such as the Department of Public Safety.\u00a0<strong><em>(procurement opportunity)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Significant and on-going public outreach is necessary\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net\/tti.tamu.edu\/documents\/TTI-2015-10.pdf\">Variable Speed Pilot Project Study from TTI at TXDOT request<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/2015\/09\/23\/researchers-examine-potential-use-of-variable-speed-limits-in-texas\/\">Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute Summary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What group studied variable speeds on Texas roads?\u00a0<\/strong>Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&amp;Bill=HB2204\">HB 2204<\/a> from 2013 legislation required it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What roadways did TTI study?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 12\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:none;\">\n<li>\n<p>\uf0b7 \u00a0Urban Congestion Site: Westbound (WB) State Loop (SL) 1604 between US 281 and IH-10, San Antonio<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\uf0b7 \u00a0Construction Work Zone Site: IH-35 northbound (NB), MM 297 \u2013 MM 301, Temple<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\uf0b7 \u00a0Weather-Related Site: Eastbound (EB) and WB IH-20 at Ranger Hill, Eastland County<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What was the result?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,17,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-legislation","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-roads","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}