Transportation Infrastructure and Sustainable Development: New Planning Approaches for Urban Growth

Abstract

As California’s population continues to grow along with traffic congestion over the next two decades, the author of this article puts forward the importance of carefully targeting infrastructure investment to relieve congestion in existing older urban areas rather than on new highways in outlying areas. He reasons that adding more lanes of freeway inevitably brings congestion as employment traditionally moves out along that development. The author argues that it is more important to focus on currently congested strips of highway and less on outward expansion. He acknowledges that California’s growing urban areas will need to support higher densities, and planners must make walking and transit more palatable. At the same time, automobile travel will remain the primary mode of transportation, making it necessary to manage congestion bottlenecks that sap economic vitality and quality of life.

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