Highway Congestion
Highway Congestion

Author: JayEtta Z. Hecker

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781422304037

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Congestion is a serious & growing transport. problem for the nation. Many strategies -- like adding new lanes -- have the potential to alleviate congestion but can be costly & have limited application. Another strategy is the use of communications, electronics, & computer technologies -- intelligent transport. systems (ITS) -- to more effectively utilize existing transport. infrastructure by improving traffic flow. Congress estab. an ITS program in 1991, & the DoT subsequently set an ITS deployment goal. This report: describes the fed. role in deployment; assesses DoT's ITS goal & measurement efforts; identifies what ITS studies have found regarding the impacts of ITS deployment; & identifies the barriers to ITS deployment & use. Illustrations.

Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning
Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning

Author: Reid Ewing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1351211323

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Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality, and watershed and green-spaces. It is fundamental to efforts to promote social justice and equity. Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning shows how the most innovative metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in the United States are addressing these issues using their mandates to improve transportation networks while pursuing emerging sustainability goals at the same time. As both a policy analysis and a practical how-to guide, this book presents cutting-edge original research on the role accessibility plays - and should play - in transportation planning, tracks how existing plans have sought to balance competing priorities using scenario planning and other strategies, assesses the results of various efforts to reduce automobile dependence in cities, and explains how to make planning documents more powerful and effective. In highlighting the most innovative practices implemented by MPOs, regional planning councils, city and county planning departments and state departments of transportation, this book aims to influence other planning organizations, as well as influence federal and state policy discussions and legislation.

Urban Travel Patterns for Hospitals, Universities, Office Buildings, and Capitols
Urban Travel Patterns for Hospitals, Universities, Office Buildings, and Capitols

Author: Louis E. Keefer

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Travel patterns were studied for hospitals, colleges and universities, office buildings, and state capitol complexes. The analyses include trip generation, trip distribution, and general trip characteristics such as trip purpose and mode of travel. Data were obtained from many origin-and-destination studies conducted during recent years for urban transportation planning processes. Trips to and from specific types of land use were studied. The trip generation characteristics are related to various quantifiable factors for each specific land use through the use of multiple regression analyses.