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Utah DOT Project Comes in $260 Million Below Budget and in Record Time While Keeping Traffic Moving
Date Posted:	1/3/2013
Description:	The Utah County I-15 Corridor Expansion Project (commonly known as the I-15 CORE project) was completed in December 2012 by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), coming in $260 million under budget as the fastest billion dollar highway project ever completed in the United States. UDOT deployed innovative techniques to keep traffic moving throughout the project. Strategies included performing most lane and exit work (up to 90 percent) during overnight hours to significantly reduce traffic delays; using inventive traffic patterns such as lane shifts and splits to keep as much of the roadway open as possible while providing a safe workspace; and deploying technology to provide motorists with travel times on I-15 and a key alternate route so that motorists could effectively decide which route to use.
External URL:	http://www.aashtojournal.org/Pages/122112I15CORE.aspx