Making highway expansion’s travel effects visible
The Washington Post discussed the California Induced Travel Calculator in its 2021 reporting on highway funding and the choice between maintaining existing roads and expanding capacity.
BlinkTag built the public web tool with the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at UC Davis. It lets users estimate additional vehicle miles traveled from a highway expansion by selecting a road type, county, and number of added lane-miles.
Our role was to make a technical research method easier to use and explain. The coverage places that tool in a national infrastructure discussion, where understanding the travel a project may generate is part of evaluating its long-term consequences.
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