{"id":136881,"date":"2022-03-15T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/study-calls-for-curbing-congestion"},"modified":"2022-03-15T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:03:30","slug":"study-calls-for-curbing-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/study-calls-for-curbing-congestion","title":{"rendered":"Study calls for curbing congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-calls-for-curbing-congestion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SSTI and the UW\u2013Madison-based Mayors Innovation Project recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssti.us\/2018\/09\/modern-mitigation-a-demand-centered-approach-ssti-september-2018\/\">released a new report<\/a> arguing for a different approach that incentivizes diverse ways to travel to and from new developments. By funding public transportation, limiting parking and preserving the walkability of neighborhoods, Sundquist\u2019s team argues, cities and states can reduce congestion better than if they only plan for cars.<\/p>\n<p>The same solutions can help cities meet their policy goals, such as reduced emissions or more equitable access to services for residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look at the gap between policy goals on the one hand and the way decisions are being made that actually make things happen in the real world,\u201d says Sundquist. \u201cOften you have great policy goals, and then you have a bunch of rules of thumb that are still basically what was set in the \u201950s during the interstate era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSTI and the UW\u2013Madison-based Mayors Innovation Project recently released a new report arguing for a different approach that incentivizes diverse ways to travel to and from new developments. By funding public transportation, limiting parking and preserving the walkability of neighborhoods, Sundquist\u2019s team argues, cities and states can reduce congestion better than if they only plan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}