Highway Congestion : Intelligent Transportation Systems' Promise for Managing Congestion Falls Short, and Dot Could Better Facilitate Their Strategic Use

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.Hecker, JayEtta Z. is the author of 'Highway Congestion : Intelligent Transportation Systems' Promise for Managing Congestion Falls Short, and Dot Could Better Facilitate Their Strategic Use', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422304037 and ISBN 1422304035.