Ramp meters in the Twin Cities were turned off for 8 weeks in the Fall of 2000. This paper analyzes travel time variability with and without ramp metering for several representative freeways during the afternoon peak period. Travel time variability is generally reduced with metering. However, it...

This project examines the expected benefits of varying combinations of ITS applications: Freeway Service Patrol, Changeable Message Signs, and Ramp Metering. The research analyzes the simulated results of a stylized network in a microscopic traffic simulator. The traffic network includes...

Highway assistance services, also called the freeway service patrols (FSPs), are one of the main approaches used by incident management programs. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors that contribute to people choosing to rely on the highway assistance services (FSP) in...

Using monthly public transit revenue data, we investigate the effect of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic on public transit revenues in the large urban municipality of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Calgary provides a poignant environment in which to examine the effect of COVID-19 on transit fare...

Public Private Partnerships in Mexico have become an alternative financing strategy for infrastructure development; thus, for the economic development of the country, mainly in the road sector. However, the operation of these Partnerships has caused controversy due to failed experiences that...

A model of demand for parking, evolving over time, is proposed. The model features both extensive (whether to park) and intensive (for how long to park) margins of parking demand, allows multidimensional heterogeneity of parkers, and evolution of demand throughout the day. I calculate the...

Spanish Abstract: En México, las Asociaciones Público Privadas se han convertido en una estrategia financiera alternativa para el desarrollo de infraestructura y por ende para el desarrollo económico del país, principalmente en el sector carretero. Sin embargo la operatividad de las mismas...

Using monthly public transit revenue data from January 2015 to December 2021, we investigate the effect of COVID-19 on public transit revenues in the large urban municipality of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. We find that revenue from transit fares dropped immediately and significantly after the...

This paper has two main purposes. The first is to present, to analyze and to suggest road infrastructure investment and financing policies in Brazil. The second objective is to analyze toll road concessions, with emphasis on toll tariffs. For the last eight years federal road investment (at...

House prices have increased significantly in Canada over the past decade, driving household debt and residential construction activity to historical highs. Although macro-prudential tightening has slowed the pace of household borrowing in the last few years, house prices have continued to trend...