Stories tagged with congestion

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IBM imagines a smarter planet with smarter transportation
March 4, 2010
By Sean Barry

“The systemic nature of urban transportation is also the key to its solution. We need to stop focusing only on pieces of the problem: adding a new bridge, widening a road, putting up signs, establishing commuter lanes, encouraging carpooling or deploying traffic copters. Instead, we need to look at relationships across the entire system—and all [...]

Driving down in 2008, congestion down much more
July 8, 2009
By Stephen Lee Davis

Due to the impact of high gas prices, the economic slowdown, and a growing preference for public transportation and other options for getting around, congestion was down in 2008 over 2007, marking the first two-year decrease in congestion since the Texas Transportation Institute began keeping track in 1982. Today, TTI released their bi-annual Urban Mobility Report today on the state of congestion and traffic in the U.S.

Breaking Down the Blueprint: Economic Competitiveness, Efficiency, and Opportunity, Pt. 2
June 17, 2009
By Andrew Bielak

The T4 America Blueprint has six overarching national objectives to provide a new vision and guide our federal transportation policy. If our transportation system is in need of a clear purpose, these six objectives are like the rudder that will steer the ship. To ensure that we can meet these objectives and measure our progress, [...]

Breaking Down the Blueprint: Economic Competitiveness, Efficiency, and Opportunity
June 11, 2009
By Andrew Bielak

A successful transportation system ensures that we arrive to work on time, moves goods quickly and efficiently, and employs millions of Americans in well-paying jobs. With our nation facing some of the greatest challenges in recent history, it’s particularly important that we make the right investments now to promote long-term economic growth for the future. In our ongoing series Breaking Down the Blueprint, we’ll describe why one of our six national transportation objectives is to improve economic competitiveness, transportation system efficiency, and workforce development opportunities.

A day of air travel over North America, and what it means for rail
March 5, 2009
By Stephen Lee Davis

From Wired Magazine via Aaron of Streetsblog comes this amazing map and video that shows a day of air travel over North America. Using data from the Federal Aviation Administration and a service called FlightView that tracks airline travel each day, Artist Aaron Koblin created this Google map that shows 24 hours of airline travel on August 12, 2008. What does this have to do with rail travel?

We drive less, but roads are still full, Chicago-area study says
October 14, 2008
By Andrew Bielak

A new study by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning shows that while total miles of car travel in the Chicago area has dropped by nearly five percent since last year, congestion in the region has managed to get worse. (Chicago Tribune — Jon Hilkevitch)

Smart Para-Transit: A New Vision for Urban Transportation
August 26, 2008
By Andrew Bielak

LimeWire founder Mark Groton describes the need to develop a “Smart Para-Transit” transportation network to combat worsening congestion. (Streetsblog)

On transportation woes
August 7, 2008
By Andrew Bielak

S.F. Post’s editorial board says that Californians need to understand the connection between land use decisions, congestion, and greenhouse gases, and backs a proposal by state senator Darrell Steinberg to require that regional and local transportation plans include reports on the impact of greenhouse gases.

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