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Urban Mobility Report

Texas Traffic Gets a Pandemic Pause

December 21, 2021

Traffic congestion receded in spring 2020, then bounced back in fall Roadway bottlenecks were back to near pre-pandemic levels in Texas in late 2020 after overall hours wasted in traffic dropped by more than half in the early part of that year, according to a new traffic study performed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, COVID-19, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Urban Mobility Report 2021 – Congestion was Flattened in 2020: COVID-19 Made Traffic Congestion Disappear but Not for Long

September 1, 2021

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Traffic Hiatus from COVID-19 Was Historic…and Brief

September 1, 2021

America’s worst public health crisis in a century flattened roadway congestion to levels not seen in 40 years, but the respite was short lived, according to the 2021 Urban Mobility Report (UMR) from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). In the pandemic shutdown of spring 2020, daily commuter traffic dropped by almost half compared to […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: COVID-19, mobility, traffic congestion, Urban Mobility Report

TTI Publishes 2021 Urban Mobility Report

June 29, 2021

COVID-19 Gave Us an Historic Traffic Hiatus, But the Pause Didn’t Last Long America’s worst public health crisis in a century flattened roadway congestion to levels not seen in 40 years, but the respite was short-lived, according to the 2021 Urban Mobility Report (UMR) from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). In the pandemic shutdown […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, COVID-19, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Lomax to Testify Before the Highways and Transit Subcommittee

September 11, 2019

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Research Fellow Tim Lomax will be testifying before the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at 10:00 AM Eastern (9:00 AM Central) on September 11. The subject of the hearing is congestion and potential solutions, and Lomax will be discussing the newly released Urban Mobility […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Tim Lomax, Urban Mobility Report

At a Glance — New Study Underscores Economy-Traffic Jam Link

September 1, 2019

See related story. https://mobility.tamu.edu/umr/ Source: 2019 Urban Mobility Report, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 55, Number 3 Tagged With: mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Good News, Bad News: Urban Mobility Report Underscores Economy-Traffic Connection

September 1, 2019

To take the nation’s economic temperature, analysts follow a mix of indicators, like inflation, gross domestic product and consumer confidence. They can now add freeway congestion to the list because if more Americans are working, more of us are also tied up in traffic. That picture is painted clearly in the 2019 Urban Mobility Report, […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 55, Number 3 Tagged With: mobility, Urban Mobility Report

New Study Underscores Economy/Traffic Jam Link

August 22, 2019

If more Americans are working, a new report confirms, more of us are also tied up in traffic. The picture is painted clearly in the 2019 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Along with illustrating the problem, researchers also stress the same straightforward solutions they’ve long advocated: more of everything […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, economics, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Lomax Moderates Transportation Solutions Panel at Houston LINK Forum

July 9, 2013

Houston is hot, but also cool.  According to Forbes magazine, the nation’s fifth largest metro area is the “coolest” city to live in the United States. With nearly 175,000 new jobs added between 2007 and 2012, it’s easy to see why leaders from other urban areas might want to see for themselves just what is […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: LINK 2013, LINK Houston, Tim Lomax, Urban Mobility Report

As Traffic Jams Worsen, Commuters Allow Extra Time for Urgent Trips

March 1, 2013

As traffic congestion continues to worsen, trip times become more unpredictable. Researchers now have a way to measure that degree of unreliability.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 49, Number 1 Tagged With: emissions, Planning Time Index, PTI, Urban Mobility Report

As Traffic Jams Worsen, Commuters Allowing Extra Time for Urgent Trips

February 5, 2013

As traffic congestion continues to worsen, the time required for a given trip becomes more unpredictable, and researchers now have a way to measure that degree of unreliability, introduced for the first time as part of the annual Urban Mobility Report (UMR), published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). The Planning Time Index (PTI), […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Fighting Congestion with Technology: The New Frontier

March 1, 2012

A technological revolution is underway that has transportation leaders, government officials and even attorneys abuzz with questions and hope about what it could mean in solving a growing and costly concern — congestion.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 48, Number 1 Tagged With: congestion, data collection, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Mobility Study

December 1, 2011

Even though it’s not cited along with monthly job statistics, traffic congestion is a sign of economic prosperity — and it’s also a vivid reminder of how it is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 47, Number 4 Tagged With: mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Urban Mobility Report highlights rare congestion decline

September 1, 2009

Fuel prices that began rising at the end of 2007 helped ease the nation’s congestion slightly, according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Urban Mobility Report, released on July 8. The popular report found that, as a result, time wasted for the average commuter was cut by about one hour. Even so, most rush-hour travelers […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 45, Number 3 Tagged With: congestion, Urban Mobility Report

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