AN ASSESSMENT OF STRATEGIES FOR ALLEVIATING URBAN CONGESTION. FINAL REPORT

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of strategies for alleviating urban traffic congestion. In particular, this report provides a macroscopic, areawide assessment of traffic congestion problems in Texas and insight to the potential for alleviating these problems. In examining the potential of various strategies for alleviating congestion, historical quantifications and estimates of future congestion in major Texas urban areas and associated costs were computed. The results of this particular phase of the analysis should provide a clearer picture of the extent of the congestion problem in Texas. The strategies for alleviating congestion identified in this study were assessed based on both independent and simultaneous application. Groups of strategies that appear to work well when applied simultaneously were identified. These assessments were made based on urban area size and severity of existing congestion and, where possible, were related directly to major Texas urban areas.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Research study title: An Assessment of Strategies for Alleviating Urban Congestion.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Transportation Planning Division, P.O. Box 5051
  Austin, TX  United States  78763

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Henk, R H
  • Poe, C M
  • Lomax, T J
• Publication Date: 1991-11

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 182 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Assessments; Costs; Measures of effectiveness; Reduction (Chemistry); Traffic congestion; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Old TRIS Terms: Reduction; Strategy
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00623582
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-TX-90/1-1252, Res Rept 1252-1F, TTI: 2-10-90/1-1252
• Contract Numbers: Study 2-10-90/1-1252
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 31 1992 12:00AM