Restarting America’s Most Essential Operating System: Unlocking Gridlock

Like an overloaded computer, decades of underinvestment have frozen the advancement of our nation’s transportation network at a time when our growing population needs jobs and our economy needs a competitive edge.

Three key challenges loom ahead - easing urban congestion; supporting mounting freight demands; and connecting rural economies to the national network. In each case, an essential solution is enabling our transportation system to grow, where ever and however it is needed.

In this first of a three-part report, Transportation Reboot describes what is changing in America and why those changes demand new transportation capacity. Future segments address the capacity increases required to meet the burgeoning freight demand, and to access the economic might of rural America.

Inside:

1. System Overload
   Population Travel Growth Inadequate investment Paying the Price of Congestion
   
2. It Is Your Father’s Interstate! But It Doesn’t Have to Be
   Aging Arteries What’s So Great about an Interstate? Interstate Expansion Needs
   
3. The Opportunities of Expansion
   Making the System Swifter, Safer, Smarter, Sustainable Preservation Includes Performance
   
4. Urban Answers
   A Four-Point Plan for Urban Mobility Investments in Transit, Intercity Rail

“Between 1980 and 2006, traffic on the Interstate System increased by 150 percent, while Interstate capacity increased by only 15 percent.”

For more information visit: Transportation Reboot: Restarting America’s Most Essential Operating System (Part 1 - Unlocking Gridlock)