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CONVERTIBLE ROADWAYS AND LANES SUMMARY It is no secret that the level of traffic congestion on the nation's roadways continues to increase. Numerous reports and studies have shown that the steady growth in traffic volume has resulted in ever-growing societal and environmental costs associated with delay, pollution, and driver frustration.
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2 This synthesis was undertaken to address the need to increase the level of understanding of reversible roadways and to improve the knowledge of their characteristics and operational requirements, costs, and benefits so that reversible operations can be more effectively implemented in the future. The synthesis documents the historical development of reversible lanes, applications for various needs, lessons learned from previous implementation, costs and benefits associated with their use, and various techniques and successful practices that have been developed.
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