Welcome to Mergex - The Future of Driving
Mergex is an innovative traffic management system designed to significantly reduce traffic congestion and gridlock on our highways, specifically at merge points necessitated at work zones and on-ramps, or virtually any situation where a lane reduction occurs.
The beauty of the Mergex* system rests on its conceptual simplicity which requires no modifications to existing vehicles or the installation of any third party hardware. Mergex uses a creative combination of software and hardware that encourages drivers to follow a set of visual cues designed to facilitate merging at relatively high speeds. This “zipper-like” process of merging can then be accomplished with minimal loss of highway design capacity.
Most of us have experienced that sinking feeling on a busy highway when traffic slows to a crawl for inexplicable reasons and then seems to miraculously “recover” its throughput speeds after some distance. These bottleneck points are generally associated with traffic either merging onto the highway or because of lane drops (multiple lanes being reduced by one or more lanes). Much of this has simply to do with a highway system overloaded with today’s commuter lifestyle. Rather than expanding capacity by the traditional, and very costly, approach of building additional lanes, Mergex takes a different tack where it more fully utilizes the latent capacity of an existing highway. In built-up metropolitan areas the option of expanding a highway may not even be feasible; the Mergex system offers a viable alternative.
*Patent awarded April 2010
The beauty of the Mergex* system rests on its conceptual simplicity which requires no modifications to existing vehicles or the installation of any third party hardware. Mergex uses a creative combination of software and hardware that encourages drivers to follow a set of visual cues designed to facilitate merging at relatively high speeds. This “zipper-like” process of merging can then be accomplished with minimal loss of highway design capacity.
Most of us have experienced that sinking feeling on a busy highway when traffic slows to a crawl for inexplicable reasons and then seems to miraculously “recover” its throughput speeds after some distance. These bottleneck points are generally associated with traffic either merging onto the highway or because of lane drops (multiple lanes being reduced by one or more lanes). Much of this has simply to do with a highway system overloaded with today’s commuter lifestyle. Rather than expanding capacity by the traditional, and very costly, approach of building additional lanes, Mergex takes a different tack where it more fully utilizes the latent capacity of an existing highway. In built-up metropolitan areas the option of expanding a highway may not even be feasible; the Mergex system offers a viable alternative.
*Patent awarded April 2010
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Latest News
May 2010
Results of a Paramics simulation study conducted at California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) demonstrated that a Mergex scenario would yield a 50% improvement over a non-Mergex scenario.
April 2010
A patent for the core system was awarded by the US Patent Office.
January 2010
First prototype system was successfully tested at an indoor track facility using naïve drivers.
November 2009
Working prototype system was built for Proof-of-Concept trials.
October 2009
John Lower of Circulation Systems Associates was retained as a consultant to advise on planning and execution of road trials using the prototype system.
Results of a Paramics simulation study conducted at California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) demonstrated that a Mergex scenario would yield a 50% improvement over a non-Mergex scenario.
April 2010
A patent for the core system was awarded by the US Patent Office.
January 2010
First prototype system was successfully tested at an indoor track facility using naïve drivers.
November 2009
Working prototype system was built for Proof-of-Concept trials.
October 2009
John Lower of Circulation Systems Associates was retained as a consultant to advise on planning and execution of road trials using the prototype system.
