Posted on January 13, 2011 9:41 AM
Highway Shoulders Used to Increase Capacity
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently released the report Efficient Use of Highway Capacity Summary, which summarizes the implementation of safety shoulders as travel lanes as a method to increase highway capacity. The report provides an overview of efforts to use left or right shoulder lanes as temporary or interim travel lanes and reviews the safety and operational impacts of shoulder lanes.