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Coming Soon: Beyond Traffic, a 30-Year Framework for US Transportation

Via USDOT  Fast Lane blog

The challenges facing transportation in America cannot be dealt with piecemeal.  They’re tightly connected, and they must be managed as a whole. 

For example, we know that populations are shifting and growing now and that 70 million more people will be living in the U.S. in the next 30 years. We know that new technologies like ride-sharing and Unmanned Aerial Systems (you know them as “drones”) are changing the way we travel and how we move freight.

But, we haven’t taken a good look at how one piece affects another. We’re not thinking big enough – or forward enough – to address the issues we’ll need to address if we want to keep our nation moving 30 years from now.

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