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What is Being Done About Congestion

The documents and web sites below provide additional guidance and information for a variety of mobility measurement efforts.

Federal or National

• U.S. House of Representatives
  • Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure
    The Surface Transportation Authorization Act Of 2009: A Blueprint For Investment And Reform - Executive Summary [PDF]
  • The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For Users (TEA-LU) (H.R.3) on March 10, 2005. Many sections include congestion relief projects and programs. Of particular note is Title 1, Subtitle B, Congestion Relief that outlines a broad set of solutions to relieve congestion. (To view the text of the bill go to http://thomas.loc.gov/ and search for "HR 3 RH.")
• Federal Highway Administration
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits, Costs and Lessons Learned - Executive Summary
  • FHWA Congestion Mitigation Program
• American Public Transportation Association
• American Road and Transportation Builders Assocation, Transportation Development Foundation
• Best Workplaces for Commuters
• Commuter Choice
  A business/government partnership
• It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air
• ITS America
• The Road Information Program (TRIP)
• Surface Transportation Policy Project
• Urban Land Institute

State or Local

• California Department of Transportation
  • PeMS (Freeway Performance Measurement System)
    This archive includes data for several California cities.
• Colorado Department of Transportation
  • Mobility in Grand Junction, CO [PDF]
    Report describing the application of the Urban Mobility Study methodology in a study of arterial streets in a small urban area (2000 city population - 42,000).
• Connecticut Transportation Strategy Board
  Connecticut's approach to link transportation planning and investment, land use and economic development.
• Florida Department of Transportation
  • Florida Transportation Indicators
  • Pocket Guide to Florida Transportation Trends & Conditions
• Houston-Galveston Area Council
• Houston's Travel Rate Improvement Program—TRIP 2000 [PDF]
  Houston area transportation agencies and businesses outline a plan for addressing mobility needs in the 21st Century.
• Houston's Travel Rate Improvement Program Toolbox of Improvement Strategies [PDF]
  • Increase System Efficiency
  • Manage the Demand
  • Add Capacity
  • Change the Urban Scheme
  • Manage the Construction and Maintenance
• Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
• Maricopa Association of Governments
• Maryland State Highway Administration
• Minnesota Department of Transportation
• New York Department of Transportation
• Ohio Department of Transportation
• Implementing Statewide Operations Performance Measures in Oregon
  Paper describing the development and implementation of statewide operations performance measures using HERS-ST and archived real-time data using procedures from the Urban Mobility Report.
  • Final Report [PDF] (June 2004)
  • TRB Paper [PDF] (January 2005)
• Texas Department of Transportation
  • Breaking the Gridlock
    Learn more about what is being done to change the way Texas plans, funds and delivers transportation systems in metropolitan areas.
  • TexasFreeway.com
• Virginia Department of Transportation
  • ADMS Virginia
    This archive includes data for several Virginia cities.
• Washington State Department of Transportation
  • WSDOT Takes Aim at Traffic Congestion
  • Washington State's Quarterly Report (Gray Notebook)
    Tracks WSDOT's performance.
  • The pRICE Is Right [PDF]
    An excellent lay-person view of the benefits to motorists of aggressive traffic operations strategies.

Other Information

The Jamdex—An Experimental One-Stop Performance Measure [PDF]

Other Transportation Statistics

Related TTI Reports and Presentations

• The Keys to Estimating Mobility in Urban Areas
  This is a White Paper prepared for the Urban Transportation Performance Measure Study that details mobility measures and how to develop and apply mobility information. A spreadsheet is included that contains applications of many of the measures.
• Access Management and Mobility [PDF]
  This paper discusses how the effects of access management have been incorporated into the Urban Mobility Report.
• Data Processing Steps in Mobility Monitoring Program [PDF]
  A short summary of the procedures used for data quality control and database creation. More information is also included in the full Mobility Monitoring Program report.
• Guidelines for Developing ITS Data Archiving Systems [PDF]
• Lessons Learned: Monitoring Highway Congestion and Reliability Using Archived Traffic Detector Data (October 2004)
  This report describes lessons learned from four years of the Mobility Monitoring Program.
• Measuring the Distribution and Costs of Congestion [PDF]
  June 2003 Presentation in Washington, D.C.
  Traffic Congestion: Issues and Options Conference
• Selecting Travel Reliability Measures [PDF]
  Performance measures for reliability from a user perspective.
• Travel Time Data Collection Handbook [PDF]
  Methods to collect travel time and speed information.

Information About:

• Media Information
• Report and Appendices
• Summary Tables – Congestion Levels and Trends
• Congestion Data for Your City
• How We Got The Numbers
• What is Being Done About Congestion
• Mobility Measurement in Urban Transportation

• Return to 2009 Annual Urban Mobility Report

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