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Round Two: Seven Finalists Create Plans To Implement Their Visions

The U.S. DOT named seven finalists: Austin, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco. The seven finalists dreamed big: they planned to implement autonomous shuttles to move city residents, to electrify...

How We Align Decisions and Dollars

As the transportation system has grown and become more complex, transportation decision-making has become more difficult, transportation projects have become more costly, and revenue challenges have grown. In recent decades, investments have failed to keep pace with...

The Winner: Columbus, Ohio

Columbus put forward an impressive, holistic vision for how technology can help all residents move better and access opportunity.

The City of Columbus proposed a comprehensive, integrated plan addressing challenges in residential, commercial, freight, and downtown districts using a number...

How We Grow Opportunity For All

Transportation policy and investments must empower Americans to connect to opportunity and to come together, not grow further apart. In cities, historic racial and economic divides have been perpetuated by planning, infrastructure, and socioeconomic policies that have isolated neighborhoods,...

How We Move Better

New technologies, like automated and connected vehicles, will soon make travel significantly safer and more convenient. Advances in data processing are enabling governments and private companies alike to improve transportation services and better target investments. Government is evolving to...

How We Adapt

Climate change is a major threat to our way of life. Transportation accounts for 27 percent of our Nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Air pollution and noise caused by traffic also affect the health and quality of life of Americans, particularly those near congested urban corridors.

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How We Move Things

Freight volumes are projected to increase by more than 40 percent over the next 30 years, straining our transportation system. As demand for freight in urban areas grow, challenges will increase for “first-mile” movement of goods out of urban factories and ports, and “last-mile” movement of...

How We Move

Our population is expected to grow by almost 70 million over the next three decades—and mid-sized cities are expected to grow at three times the rate of the rest of the country. This growth is expected to strain urban infrastructure across all transportation modes. Travelers in cities today face...