Adoption of FasTrak on San Francisco Bay Area Bridges: Impact of Operations Research Models in Relieving Congestion

Ramesh Bollapragada thanks his student Hector Bedolla and his colleague Sanjit Sengupta at the College of Business for their contributions during the initial stages of this work in 2007. He thanks Jeff Gerbracht at MTC for help and support in providing him with all the data needed for this work. He thanks his student Debra Lee (University of California, Berkeley) for providing research assistance on the data set analysis. He further thanks several of his students (Lejla Salkanovic, Saghi Bonakdar, Vinutha Prabhakar, Gabrielle Brignetti, and Daria Anshakova) in the College of Business, San Francisco State University, for providing research assistance at various stages of this work from 2007 to 2020. He sincerely thanks his coauthors, Venoo Kakar, John Goodwin, and Andrew Fremier, for their help, support, and patience in the pursuit of this research publication. Venoo Kakar thanks Chen Chen for excellent research assistance as well as Gerald Daniels of Howard University for useful comments. The authors thank Villate Brown McKitrick for the editing and proofreading help provided during the revisions of the paper with IJAA. Finally, the authors thank the IJAA editor-in-chief, Prof. Michael Gorman; the anonymous associate editor; and the reviewers who significantly helped us in improving the quality of the paper and its presentation. We also thank the managing editor of IJAA, Ms. Kelly Kophazi, for all the editorial assistance provided throughout the review process.