Growing Traffic Congestion & Lack of New Capacity Threaten Mobility of America's Transportation System

As part of an issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Interstate Highway System, this article describes some of the challenges facing the current system, as capacity has fallen behind the growth in traffic. A key element is the fact that the Interstate serves a number of different purposes, with 90 percent of the goods traded in the country traveling in trucks over highways. One proposal is to separate out goods movement, which tends to be harder on pavement than passenger travel, from the regular network. Current legislative practices do not provide long-term solutions because so much legislation is concerned with earmarked projects. Additional reports are cited suggestion guidelines for future approaches.

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• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 81-85
• Serial:
  • Transportation Builder
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Road & Transportation Builders Association
  • ISSN: 1043-4054

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway capacity; Mobility; Traffic congestion
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01030010
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 1 2006 7:39AM