Decongesting America’s Cities, Regions and Megaregions: Finding Solutions to Metropolitan Congestion

This proposed 18-month research project will address the challenge of how to reverse the growth of congestion that is congealing freeways, highways, and city streets across the United States. Innovations in shared mobility, automated vehicles, automated tolling and dynamic pricing systems, “big data” systems, and innovative governance and finance systems may be the breakthrough in managing urban, metropolitan and megaregional traffic congestion. This will require the integration of these technologies into a comprehensive metropolitan congestion reduction system, which no US city has yet been able to do. This proposed system can also help achieve a broad range of other public policy concerns facing metropolitan America. These could include reducing growing inequity, carbon production, and energy consumption, and promoting more efficient development patterns.

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $41210
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747135

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  Center for Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions

  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX  United States  78712
• Principal Investigators:

  Yaro, Robert

  Taylor, Marilyn

• Start Date: 20180901
• Expected Completion Date: 20190831
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Metropolitan areas; Regional planning; Technological innovations; Traffic congestion
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01674246
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Jun 29 2018 4:40PM