Congestion Management

Traffic congestion costs time and money. A recent report published by the Texas Transportation Institute, ranked the Baltimore region 16th in terms of annual delay per traveler. This is up from 29th place just a few years earlier.

In an effort to reduce congestion, local and regional planners and transportation agencies use a Congestion Management Process to help monitor congestion, identify problems, and find solutions that improve the transportation system.

What is a Congestion Management Process?A Congestion Management Process is basically the name for the process of:

• Monitoring and evaluating the performance of existing transportation facilities;
• Identifying the cause and location of congestion; and
• Providing information to support strategies that lessen congestion and improve mobility.

By using the CMP tool, planners can effectively address problems with the system.

Managing Congestion in the Baltimore Region

• What do the numbers say? Collecting data and monitoring the system
• Looking to the future: Congestion Management and the Long-Range Transportation Plan
• Improving congestion: Implementing Strategies in the Northeast CMP Corridor
• Keeping track of it all: Interagency review process

For more information:
Bala Akundi, bakundi@baltometro.org or 410-732-0500 x1019.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 August 2008 08:15