Travel Time Sign

[NE2]

Now THIS is an awesome VMS, I mean, a freaking route shield on a VMS! Where else has this been done?

[D-Dey65]

Aw, hell! That's way better! I ought to get out to the Metro Orlando area more often!

 

[jemacedo9]

I'm not aware of any in PA, NY, or NJ...they only recently started posting times on VMSs instead of separate signs.  Does anyone know if there are plans to convert to standalone signs for PA, NY, or NJ?

[thenetwork]

I have seen some in Ontario on the QEW.

[Alps]

I'm not aware of any in PA, NY, or NJ...they only recently started posting times on VMSs instead of separate signs.  Does anyone know if there are plans to convert to standalone signs for PA, NY, or NJ?

No, but they're expanding the program in NJ to cover more VMS on more roads. (They are also now doing it for work zones using portable VMS.) Considering the VMS are only ever used for a) Silver Alerts or b) NYC crossing delays, I'm just fine with it.

[burgess87]

This one looks like it's just about ready to go (Interstate 990 SB near its terminus with Interstate 290) in Buffalo:



The existing VMS is showing the border crossing delays.  At that time:

Peace Br:  0-30 mins
Rainbow Br:  30-60 mins
Lewiston-Queenston Br:  30-60 mins

[NYhwyfan]

This one looks like it's just about ready to go (Interstate 990 SB near its terminus with Interstate 290) in Buffalo:



The existing VMS is showing the border crossing delays.  At that time:

Peace Br:  0-30 mins
Rainbow Br:  30-60 mins
Lewiston-Queenston Br:  30-60 mins

I've seen this sign going up myself and thinks its a great idea.
See how much time to downtown Buffalo via I-290 east (/ NY 33 west) or I-290 west (/ I-190 south)

[formulanone]

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Thanks for that , couldn't quite find an answer on Google (although having a short attention span never helps).

[MASTERNC]

Salt Lake City does everything right with travel times.  Their VMS signs display times, even on the weekends.  Signs near the split for the airport advertised travel times via I-215 and I-15.  Finally, coming out of downtown on Cesar Chavez Blvd, the BGS signs for each Interstate option (I-80 West, I-15 South, I-80 East) display travel times for two destinations on each freeway.

[Interstatefan78]

I-278 Staten Island Expressway  has travel time display signs from RT-440 to Verrazano Bridge and this is the chokepoint that most Brookyln and JFK aiport bound drivers go through if they are driving from Piscataway and Camden, NJ areas

[CentralCAroadgeek]

This is one of the new travel time signs on I-15 around Vegas, this one southbound:

As you can see, they haven't been turned on yet, so they must be fairly new.

[roadfro]

This is one of the new travel time signs on I-15 around Vegas, this one southbound:

As you can see, they haven't been turned on yet, so they must be fairly new.

I was not aware that these types of travel time signs had been rolled out to other freeways around Vegas.

RTC installed some similar signs on the southern leg of the 215 beltway a little while back. They went with this style as a more cost effective implementation. They had already implemented travel time displays on I-15 and US 95 in Las Vegas, but these rely on VMS signs to display the times (which are lost when other messages have to be displayed) -- the beltway currently has no VMS displays.

NDOT installed similar signs along I-80 in Reno with their recent reconstruction. Here, brand new VMS displays were put in, but they also put in these types of travel time signs. (The I-80 project installed a lot of ITS infrastructure, where there was virtually no ITS infrastructure previously.) I have yet to see these active though.

[architect77]

Now THIS is an awesome VMS, I mean, a freaking route shield on a VMS! Where else has this been done?

Smaller shield on Raleigh's 1st Modern toll road, the "TriEx".

[Central Avenue]

This is one of the new travel time signs on I-15 around Vegas, this one southbound:

As you can see, they haven't been turned on yet, so they must be fairly new.

I'm curious...why the blank space? Is there some destination that will be added in the future that isn't accessible now?

[CentralCAroadgeek]

This is one of the new travel time signs on I-15 around Vegas, this one southbound:

As you can see, they haven't been turned on yet, so they must be fairly new.

I'm curious...why the blank space? Is there some destination that will be added in the future that isn't accessible now?

Who knows, maybe a Baker or Barstow would be put there...

[Kniwt]

I'm curious...why the blank space? Is there some destination that will be added in the future that isn't accessible now?

IIRC, all of these new NDOT signs -- both here and around Reno -- have three lines of digits installed, even if they're not signed for anything.

In this case, they can't sign much beyond Primm and stay within their own data sets. They could, I suppose, add (what's left of) Jean as an intermediate destination so folks could decide whether to pause there if the backup is unusually bad.

[Brandon]

Smaller shield on Raleigh's 1st Modern toll road, the "TriEx".

That's more like "no shit, Sherlock".  If it's a toll road, then of course tolling will be in progress.  It is a very nice digital rendering of the shield.