Book Description

This report addresses the current and future problems with the U.S. transportation system. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT) assembled a team of international and external experts to conduct a comprehensive examination of the system. This team shared key findings and solicited feedback in six public webinar sessions that drew 1,300 participants, including engineers, researchers, transportation planners, pilots, truck drivers, transit operators, safety advocates and disability rights advocates, among others. The report reveals that, if the U.S. does not change its approach to transportation, our transit systems, highways and airports will be impossibly gridlocked. This draft document was published to widen the scope of public feedback and discourse. Its purpose was to analyze the latest data and trends shaping transportation to objectively frame critical policy choices that need to be made. Figures. This is a print on demand report.