Rocky Mountain HOV

by Greg Altberg, Senior Civil Engineer; Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall, 410 17th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado,
Stan Ihlanfeldt, Denver, Colorado,
Dave Stevenson, Denver, Colorado,


Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1995, Vol. 65, Issue 1, Pg. 46-49


Document Type: Feature article

Abstract:

In 1988, Colorado DOT and the firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall, Denver, the oversight consultant on the project, set out to bring the highway up-to-date and promote alternate modes of transportation. With funding from the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, the Regional Transportation District, and the city and county of Denver, Colorado DOT planned to reconstruct six major interchanges, build 44 new highway structures, refurbish the existing six to eight lanes and add two new center lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles HOV. The center lanes were designed to operate as a reversible highway, allowing commuters to head southbound and enter downtown in the morning, then letting them travel north in the evening. Almost seven years later, the project is nearly finished, and an advanced traffic-management system (TMS) will be set up by September. Completion of the TMS will put the finishing touches on a project that faced diverse challenges in construction, urban design, traffic management and hazardous-waste mitigation.

Subject Headings: Highway and road structures | Urban and regional development | Traffic management | Highway and road design | High occupancy vehicles | Project management | Highway transportation | Rocky Mountains

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