What are Ramp Terminal Treatments?
Ramp terminal treatments include signal timing improvements, ramp widening, additional storage or new turn lanes on arterials, improved signing, and pavement markings on or adjacent to ramps. These treatments are geared to improving localized problems at either entrance or exit ramp terminals. Treatments focus on providing solutions to problems at the ramp/arterial intersection, on the freeway (e.g., exit ramp traffic queuing onto the freeway mainline), or on freeway ramps. At exit ramp terminals, the strategies are aimed at reducing queue spillback on the freeway, but may also be aimed at improved arterial flow by limiting the amount of freeway traffic that can access certain areas in the arterial network.
