Rob Sadowski, the new executive director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, is interviewed.
11AM-Noon, Wednesday, October 6th
KBOO FM 90.7
Streamed live at KBOO.fm
Podcast here later that day
Archive | October, 2010
Joe Cortright’s Congestion Smackdown
Local economist Joe Cortright is all over the transportation blogosphere this week. He just produced a report for CEOs for Cities entitled “Driven Apart” that takes apart the Travel Time Index, the most widely published measure of congestion in major U.S. cities.
Cortright systematically shows how the index overestimates congestion in cities with compact land use patterns like Portland. Streetsblog has a full write-up, but among Joe’s points, the index:
- overestimates free-flowing freeway volumes
- fails to account for land use patterns with shorter commute distances
- mis-estimates fuel consumption
I’m glad Joe’s on our side.
