Planning and Environment» 20th Urban Mobility Report http://tti.tamu.edu/group/pe Texas A&M Transportation Institute Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:36:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Improved Urban Mobility Report Distributed http://tti.tamu.edu/group/pe/2011/04/26/improved-urban-mobility-report-distributed/ http://tti.tamu.edu/group/pe/2011/04/26/improved-urban-mobility-report-distributed/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:31:06 +0000 Samantha Atchison http://tti.tamu.edu/group/pe/?p=139 The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI‘s) 20th Urban Mobility Report (UMR) presents the most accurate picture yet of how much time commuters in 439 metropolitan areas spend in traffic and how much that congestion costs. Released Jan. 20, the report uses GPS-enabled vehicles and mobile devices to monitor traffic speeds with data from INRIX, a leading private-sector provider of traffic information.

“The recent TTI-INRIX collaboration took much of the estimation out of calculating congestion because the data reflect the actual speeds of vehicles,” notes TTI Research Engineer Tim Lomax, lead author of the UMR. “Knowing exactly how fast traffic is moving, we can calculate delays fairly easily with precision not available before.” Read More

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