Understanding congestion context and a tool to help choose the right mitigation strategies : final report.

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• Creators:
  Lasley, Phil ; Moran, Maarit
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Mobility Strategic Planning Traffic Congestion Traffic Mitigation Context Sensitive Solutions
• Publication/ Report Number:
  PRC 16-59 F
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Texas
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  Cities of every size (and even some rural areas) face growing traffic delays, increasing travel
  
  time variability, and overall longer trip times, which makes traveling more frustrating and
  
  difficult for everyone. Many congestion solutions focus on a single location, a single type of
  
  problem, or a single idea that then generates few or similar solutions. The discussion often shifts
  
  to one strategy to fix traffic congestion and mobility. While this in general may help, taken out of
  
  context, this one strategy may not solve the systemic and underlying issue (and may even worsen
  
  the problem).
  
  For example, some cities have used highway-widening strategies exclusively that, in certain
  
  circumstances, no longer resolve congestion by themselves. This solution shortfall may be due to
  
  incorrect analysis techniques that only focus on the peak hour of the improved roadway; the
  
  larger effects are usually on parallel roads and times outside of the peak morning and evening
  
  traffic hours and are often unanticipated.
  
  While researchers have identified over 100 individual strategies to address congestion and
  
  mobility, the context in which these work best is often lost. Through misunderstanding of the
  
  strategy itself, the benefits it provides, or where it should and should not be used, many strategies
  
  simply cease to be discussed. Practitioners are left with limited options.
  
  Many of these strategies, when paired with their complements and used in the proper context,
  
  can provide synergistic benefits that save time for travelers and money for taxpayers. Many of
  
  the added benefits may also increase economic productivity, improve quality of life, or
  
  encourage healthy living.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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