SOME PERSPECTIVES ON CONGESTION: THE EMERGING MISSION OF MODERN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS
Travel demand in the U.S. continues its steady growth, vastly outstripping the ability of state DOTs and the underlying will of their bodies politic to match this growth with capacity supply. The inevitable result is congestion, which is spreading everywhere in both time and space. A series of national policies and programs have grown up, including congestion management systems, special funding categories, interest in congestion pricing schemes, and the application of advanced technologies such as intelligent transportation systems to deal with this phenomenon. As a result, coping with congestion has emerged as a major mission of a modern state DOT, joining the ranks of the others.
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Corporate Authors:
Center for Transportation Research and Education
2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700
Ames, IA United States 50010-8664Iowa Department of Transportation
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Authors:
- Hensing, D J
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Conference:
- 1996 Semisesquicentennial Transportation Conference Proceedings.
- Location: Ames, Iowa
- Date: 1996-5-13 to 1996-5-14
- Publication Date: 1996
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 121-124
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: State departments of transportation; Traffic congestion; Traffic volume; Travel demand
- Uncontrolled Terms: Missions
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00721861
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0965231003
- Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jun 11 1996 12:00AM