{"id":276,"date":"2015-08-26T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/26\/tamu-transportation-institute-good-economy-bad-traffic-7-strategies-to-combat-congestion\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T21:40:00","slug":"tamu-transportation-institute-good-economy-bad-traffic-7-strategies-to-combat-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tamu-transportation-institute-good-economy-bad-traffic-7-strategies-to-combat-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"TAMU Transportation Institute: Good Economy = Bad Traffic. 7 Strategies to Combat Congestion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better economy breeds worse traffic. Rest assured, the Texas A&amp;M Traffic Institute is tracking what states are doing about gridlock. <a href=\"http:\/\/mobility.tamu.edu\/ums\/resources\/state-or-local\/\">See their list<\/a>. More importantly, here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net\/tti.tamu.edu\/documents\/mobility-scorecard-2015.pdf\">strategies<\/a> they suggest to counter congestion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>greater transportaiton investment<\/li>\n<li>Fix existing roads &amp;\u00a0bridges<\/li>\n<li>Increase public trnsportation accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Fixing congestion is a LOCAL decision that needs LOCAL solutions<\/li>\n<li>Add capacity to critical corridors<\/li>\n<li>Give travelers options of multiple routes<\/li>\n<li>Support denser development for land use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2015\/08\/26\/in-2014-an-improving-economy-and-the-worst-traffic-in-three-decades\/\">WallStreet Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobility.tamu.edu\">Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute 2015 Mobility Study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better economy breeds worse traffic. Rest assured, the Texas A&amp;M Traffic Institute is tracking what states are doing about gridlock. <a href=\"http:\/\/mobility.tamu.edu\/ums\/resources\/state-or-local\/\">See their list<\/a>. More importantly, here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net\/tti.tamu.edu\/documents\/mobility-scorecard-2015.pdf\">strategies<\/a> they suggest to counter congestion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>greater transportaiton investment<\/li>\n<li>Fix existing roads &amp;\u00a0bridges<\/li>\n<li>Increase public trnsportation accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Fixing congestion is a LOCAL decision that needs LOCAL solutions<\/li>\n<li>Add capacity to critical corridors<\/li>\n<li>Give travelers options of multiple routes<\/li>\n<li>Support&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,30,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}