Lead Presenter:  Adam Mangano Drenkard | Associate | Stantec

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Presentation Description

Many are familiar with Austin’s attractiveness for hipsters, techies, and everyone in between. The city often makes headlines for its rapidly growing population and employment. And although the region’s traditional toll roads have followed suit with transactions and revenues beyond 2019 pre-COVID levels, the city’s only managed lane facility, MoPac N Express Lanes, is still falling short of the revenues seen prior to the Pandemic. But why? This session will present observed data from the MoPac N Express Lanes to help answer that question. Stantec is the traffic and revenue consultant for the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA), the owner and operator of the MoPac N Express Lanes. Not only has Stantec had to understand the recovery patterns so far, but we’ve needed to understand the “why” so that we can improve our traffic and revenue forecasts for the future. This session will present a myriad of data trends including traffic volumes, speeds, and toll rates. The session will also explore how the CTRMA and Stantec worked together to identify an innovative pricing structure for CTRMA’s next managed lane project, 183N Express Lanes, in order to mitigate the revenue risk that managed lanes are faced with.

Speaker Biography

Adam Mangano Drenkard is an Associate and transportation engineer at Stantec. He has experience delivering traffic and revenue studies and traffic operation studies across 13 states, working primarily on North Carolina projects. In 2021, he led Stantec’s team in monitoring the initial months of operations of the I-15 Express Lanes in Riverside County. He continued to monitor Southern California’s newest Express Lanes when the I-405 Express Lanes opened in Orange County, studying the Express Lanes’ impact on corridor demand and speeds. Based in Stantec’s New York City office, Adam lives in Hoboken, New Jersey and has a goal of visiting every Major League Baseball park. He has six to go. 

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