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	FAIR: : Traffic Congestion
		In Texas, 26 percent of freeways are congested.
		The proportion of urban interstate miles that are considered congested increased from 33 to 41 percent from 1996 to 2001.
		The Texas Transportation Institute's annual study of traffic congestion in 75 urban areas found that in 2000 rush hours lasted longer and were more extensive than the previous year and cost the country $68 billion a year.
	www.fairus.org /site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters64c1 (1059 words)

	Traffic congestion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traffic congestion is a road condition characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased queueing.
		Traffic engineers apply the rules of fluid dynamics to traffic flow, likening it to the flow of a fluid in a pipe.
		Traffic bottlenecks often occur where land is at a premium, so limited parking space is normally correlated with limited road capacity, for example in city centers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/traffic_congestion (1413 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Traffic congestion
		Congestion is a state of excessive accumulation or overfilling or overcrowding.
		The Texas Transportation Institute's annual study of traffic congestion in 75 urban areas found that in 2000 rush hours lasted longer and were more extensive than the previous year and cost the country $68 billion a year.
		Traffic congestion in Atlanta has become so bad that the Chamber of Commerce called it the greatest threat to the city's economic prosperity.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Traffic-congestion (3606 words)

	Fighting Traffic Congestion with Information Technology
		Traffic congestion is a vexing problem felt by residents of most urban areas.
		Congested city centers are usually the most exciting and high-rent of all urban environments, home to dynamic industries, tourist attractions, and cultural activities.
		Traffic congestion is also nonlinear, meaning that when volume doubles or triples on a lightly traveled street the effect on travel times is minimal, whereas adding just a few cars and trucks to a crowded roadway causes large increases in delay.
	www.rff.org /rff/News/Coverage/2002/October/Fighting-Traffic-Congestion-with-Information-Technology.cfm (5067 words)

	Measuring Virginia's Traffic Congestion and Transportation Infrastructure - Virginia Performs
		Traffic congestion presents more than a headache for commuters; it has a negative impact on the delivery of goods and services, and on the general well-being of citizens.
		In Virginia, congestion problems are most serious in the northern region close to Washington, D.C. and in the Hampton Roads area, where traffic is forced into bottlenecks at bridges and tunnels.
		A combination of factors contributes to congestion, including the capacity of the roadway, the time structure of demand for using the roadway, the cost of using the road, and the condition of the road.
	www.vaperforms.virginia.gov /i-trafficCongestion.php (1153 words)

	road alert! :: View topic - Traffic congestion plans doomed - 7th July 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Government plans to reduce traffic congestion are doomed to fail because of a widening gap between motoring costs and public transport fares, according to the government's top transport adviser.
		Congestion will continue to worsen, train passenger growth is running at only one tenth of the target rate, and rail punctuality has fallen.
		"Congestion on key parts of the road network is worse than before the plan and performance on the railways has yet to return to the levels of the late 1990s," said CBI director general Digby Jones.
	www.roadalert.org.uk /index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=printview&t=157&start=0 (851 words)

	FPI - Traffic Congestion in the Mid-Atlantic
		The incidence and severity of traffic congestion in the Mid-Atlantic States imposes significant costs on the food industry.
		Traffic jams at tollbooths and other locations, for example, have implications for air quality and significantly raise the costs of food delivery by increasing late delivery charges, fuel costs, product spoilage, and delivery times.
		Thus, the implications of traffic congestion are very strong in the food industry.
	www.foodpolicyinstitute.org /research/traffic.html (136 words)

	Online TDM Encyclopedia - Congestion Reduction
		Traffic speed and flow on urban streets are determined primarily by intersection capacity, which is affected by traffic volumes on cross streets and left turn signal phases.
		Traffic flow (the number of vehicles that can travel on a road over a particular time period) tends to be maximized at 30-55 mph on highways with no intersections, and at even lower speeds on arterials with signalized intersections.
		It is important to also account for the additional congestion on surface streets where highway traffic discharges resulting from increased traffic volumes, and the reduction in surface street traffic congestion that would result if the transit improvement attracts highway drivers out of their cars.
	www.vtpi.org /tdm/tdm96.htm (4605 words)

	Traffic congestion - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Traffic congestion is the level at which transportation system performance is no longer acceptable due to traffic interference.
		Typically, traffic congestion is viewed as a big city problem, but delays are becoming growingly common in smaller cities and even in rural areas.
		The five areas showing the highest congestion levels were: Los Angeles (1.57), Washington, DC (1.43), Miami-Hialeah (1.34), Chicago (1.34) and San Francisco-Oakland (1.33).
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Traffic_congestion (332 words)

	Traffic Congestion Relief - Legislation
		This bill reduces traffic congestion, promotes improvement of existing infrastructure through repair projects and modernization, and reduces environmental impacts through incentives for smart growth and an emphasis on cleaner transit that operates on alternative fuels.
		The Secretary shall establish one or more congestion relief and safety task forces with representatives of road authorities, the Department of Transportation, and of the counties and municipalities, which shall be charged with identifying projects which can be quickly implemented to relieve congestion or improve safety and which do not involve increases in existing capacity.
		Within points of congestion in locations in States which the E-Z Pass toll collection monitoring system is in use, the Secretary of Transportation shall determine with respect to the registrations of vehicles using the E-Z Pass system, zip code locations.
	www.serconline.org /trafficcongestionrelief/legislation.html (5031 words)

	Definition of Traffic congestion
		Traffic congestion occurs when the volume of traffic on a roadway is high enough to be detrimental to its performance.
		A period of extreme traffic congestion is known as a traffic jam.
		In the United States, construction of new highway capacity has not kept pace with population increases and the resulting increase in demand for highway travel.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Traffic_congestion (369 words)

	Focus on Congestion Relief
		Congestion is largely thought of as a big city problem, but delays are becoming increasingly common in small cities and some rural areas as well.
		Traffic demands vary significantly depending on the season of the year, the day of the week, and even the time of day.
		Traffic Incident Management—Traffic incident management is a combination of public safety functions and traffic management functions–it requires cooperation between various public agencies to reduce congestion by clearing traffic crashes and removing stalled vehicles.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /congestion (801 words)

	Traffic congestion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Typically, traffic congestion is viewed as a big city problem, but delays are becoming growingly common insmaller cities and even in rural areas.
		The five areas showing the highest congestion levels were: Los Angeles (1.57), Washington, DC (1.43), Miami - Hialeah (1.34), Chicago (1.34) and San Francisco - Oakland (1.33).
		Cities with the lowest congestion levels were: Bakersfield, California (0.68), Laredo, Texas (0.73), Colorado Springs, Colorado (0.74), Beaumont, Texas (0.76), and CorpusChristi, Texas (0.78).
	www.therfcc.org /traffic-congestion-36465.html (323 words)

	The Becker-Posner Blog: Traffic Congestion--Posner's Comment
		In the long run what will reduce traffic congestion will be the continued digital revolution, which will not only increase the amount of telecommuting but also lead to a substantial substitution of virtual for face-to-face interactions in business, shopping, and even socializing.
		Traffic congestion is but a symptom of a failed urban and regional development program.
		To the extent that congestion fees can be substituted for municipal payroll taxes, my sense is that there would be a net gain for most businesses in most cities, even if the result were some increase in the total amount of taxes paid.
	www.becker-posner-blog.com /archives/2006/02/traffic_congest.html (3315 words)

	'Smart Growth' a major cause of traffic congestion - by Wendell Cox - The Heartland Institute
		Polls routinely show that traffic congestion is one of the most serious concerns of modern American urban residents.
		If the theory of smart growth with respect to traffic is correct, then people in Asian and European cities should experience less traffic congestion than in the United States, with its more dispersed urban form, greater use of automobiles, and virtual non-existence of transit use outside core areas.
		So, with respect to traffic congestion, proponents of smart growth are akin to the legendary used car salesmen, whose false promises are exposed the moment the car is driven off the lot.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=10414 (710 words)

	Study: Rail Transit May Slow Growth in Traffic Congestion
		In these urban areas with rail, traffic congestion appears to be increasing, but at a rate 42% lower than in similar urban areas without rail, according to a study completed in October 2000 by Mobility Planning Associates of Austin, Texas.
		Traffic congestion is increasing virtually everywhere – whether cities have only expanded their high-capacity freeway and arterial systems, or have installed or expanded rail transit also.
		In other words, traffic congestion grew at a rate 73% higher in non-rail cities, than in cities with rail in one or more major travel corridors.
	www.lightrailnow.org /facts/fa_00017.htm (926 words)

	Traffic Congestion Intensifies in California Cities
		In Northern California, traffic congestion in San Jose shot that city from 15th place last year to ninth place this year.
		While it remained the number one most congested urban area in the country, the delay the average traveler experienced during peak travel times actually decreased slightly between 1990 and 2000, by one hour per year.
		The total cost of traffic congestion in California was $21.7 billion in lost time and fuel in 2000.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2002/06/20/142348.html (767 words)

	Traffic Congestion Steams Canadian Drivers
		Traffic congestion can do more than disrupt your daily schedule.
		The study also determined that 65% of Canadians polled believe traffic congestion is increasing.
		Aside from traffic congestion, aggressive driving can be fuelled by a variety of other factors.
	www.safety-council.org /info/traffic/aggression.html (535 words)

	Traffic congestion 'temperature' could forecast delays (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leonard is developing a cutting-edge traffic flow model that analyzes a variety of historical data and a host of variables to predict the next day's traffic conditions.
		Publicizing the traffic congestion index will be key to its having the intended effect.
		Full implementation of the traffic congestion index is probably several years away, Leonard said.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-12/GIoT-Tccf-081299.php (660 words)

	Drivers.com: Urban traffic congestion worsens
		The 1999 Annual Mobility Study is confined to major cities in the United States and draws its data from state and national sources to show conditions from 1977, the latest year for which information is available.
		Put another way, the annual cost of traffic congestion per driver in one-third of the cities exceeds the statewide average cost of auto insurance for those cities.
		Congestion costs per driver ranged from $50 in Brownsville, Texas to $1,370 in Los Angeles.
	www.drivers.com /article/121 (549 words)

	More and More Highways: Reconciling Smart Growth with Traffic (The Public Purpose #63)
		However, traffic intensity (vehicle miles per square mile) is not, in itself, a determinant of traffic congestion.
		To keep traffic congestion and air pollution from increasing, Portland would need to expand its roadway system by a factor of 80 percent of any density increase.
		Some of the worst traffic congestion and vehicle emitted air pollution in the world is in urban areas with comparatively low auto usage per capita (Seoul is a good example).
	www.publicpurpose.com /pp63-traffic2.htm (997 words)

	Traffic Congestion Fred Foldvary
		Motorists in the 20 most congested areas spend more than 40 hours per year waiting in traffic, wasting 4 extra tankfulls of gasoline.
		The millions of person-hours lost to traffic congestion represents lost productivity and loss of quality leisure time, a burden to the economy, plus the psychological damage of road rage.
		So the second, longer-term, traffic decongestant would be a shift in taxes from income, sales, and buildings, to site rents, which would both pay for public transit and make cities more compact.
	www.progress.org /fold117.htm (831 words)

	Solution for traffic congestion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This means charging for road use an amount that varies so that traffic is kept moving.
		Increasing highway capacity increases auto usage, and the same congestion as today returns soon (in as little as two years) after construction.
		This page is a brief, and was written to provide viable solutions for traffic congestion that counter the non-solutions proposed by special interests campaigning to raise the sales tax for more freeway construction and more subsidies to the automobile.
	www.trainweb.org /mts/solution.html (519 words)

	Traffic Congestion - See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Local Traffic Reports Real-time traffic reports with Traffic.com email and voice alerts, route-specific drive times, average speeds, road congestion, accident reports, and more.
		Transportation Professionals Comprehensive news and analysis on transportation planning, traffic engineering, and transit from hundreds of sources.
		Traffic Congestion Try No Time for Colds today.
	www.technorati.com /tag/traffic+congestion (570 words)

	Drivers.com: All articles in Traffic: Congestion
		For the city of Vancouver, Canada, the Lion's Gate Bridge is a source of traffic congestion that has worked like a charm to keep downtown livable.
		There are all kinds of part solutions to traffic congestion, and some of them we won't like.
		German physicists have created their own chaos with models of traffic flow that indicate the possibility that some congestion may be simply spontaneous.
	www.drivers.com /allarticles/111 (549 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Winter 1995): Congestion Control and Demand Management
		Recurring congestion is the predictable delay caused by high volumes of vehicles using the roadway during the same daily time periods (e.g., peak commute periods, holiday periods, or special events) and at critical locations (intersections, interchanges, major long-term construction areas, or toll plaza areas).
		Nonrecurring congestion is unpredictable delay generally caused by spontaneous, unplanned occurrences such as traffic accidents and incidents, emergency maintenance, or weather conditions.
		For example, the study group found that the demand-side, economic measure of congestion pricing can be applied effectively to address congestion in a wide range of situations, including in urban areas, in interurban corridors, for managing holiday travel, and for controlling traffic at special events.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/winter95/p95wi1.htm (1518 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Traffic Congestion Tax Hits $65 Billion..." (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Traffic Congestion Tax Hits $65 Billion; Statement of ARTBA President Pete Ruane on Texas Transportation Institute Traffic Congestion Report
		"The root cause of traffic congestion in America is the failure of government at all levels to make the transportation capital investments necessary to keep pace with the mobility demands of an ever growing U.S. population and economy.
		At $2.28 per gallon, the motor fuel wasted due to traffic congestion is costing American motorists and shippers $6.2 billion a year.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=47030 (458 words)

	Congestion Pricing - Traffic, Health & Climate - Environmental Defense
		The idea of congestion pricing is simple: Use price to signal when drivers should consider taking mass transit, reschedule their trip or pay a higher fee for driving.
		Cities around the world are beginning to use congestion pricing systems to cut traffic in their urban centers and along heavily-used corridors.
		Singapore was one of the first large cities to adopt congestion pricing, starting in 1975 with a flat-rate S$3 charge to enter the central business district during morning rush hours.
	www.environmentaldefense.org /article.cfm?contentID=6288 (1129 words)

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