FLORIDA: Bus Toll Lane
The Bus Toll Lane (BTL) is a highway-based transit solution. The goal is to create financially sustainable transit service by efficiently combining funding resources and operational capabilities of public transit and toll agencies. Each agency's access to toll revenue would be based on their equity invested in development of the BTL. The bus toll lane (BTL) concept is a price-managed lane with up to 10% of the capacity dedicated to bus-transit. BTL is not a HOT Lane. Only transit-buses would be allowed to use the lane(s) without paying a toll.
This "new" concept proposes to move transit forward by making it a partner in the toll road trade. This would create tolled bus lanes with a transit agency as an equity holder, or full-owner, of the required highway infrastructure. The bus lanes would be open to use by all light-duty 2-axle vehicles and would be price managed to assure the desired level of service on the facility. The BTL would maximize passenger throughput by employing proven bus technologies, all electronic open road tolling (ORT) and dynamic congestion pricing techniques.
Study Completed 2013
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Martin Stone Consulting, LLC
371 Channelside Walkway #201
Tampa, Florida 33602
Phone: (813) 272-6740 Extension 127
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