Expanding Metropolitan Highways

Download or read book Expanding Metropolitan Highways written by Transportation Research Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews existing research on the links among highway capacity, traffic flow characteristics, travel demand, land use, vehicle emissions, air quality, and energy use in metropolitan areas; Identifies the conditions most likely to affect emissions and energy use; reviews the reliability of models and analyses that regional and state planning agencies use to forecast travel demand and land use, emission levels, and energy consumption; and recommends research strategies, modeling improvements, and data collection efforts to improve analytic capabilities.