The Intercounty Connector:
Performance and Alternatives Report
Study conducted by Smart Mobility, Inc.
(1/18/05)
A new study rates the ICC
as the worst option and finds that alternatives do a better job of cutting travel
time, easing congestion and protecting public health than the $2 billion expressway.
The study was conducted by Smart Mobility, Inc., a nationally recognized traffic
modeling firm.
Faster, Cheaper, Cleaner
How does the ICC compare with our five proposals?
- For all alternatives, less
time would be spent in cars than with the ICC.
- All the alternatives would
mean fewer hours of delay due to congestion.
- The ICC is the only alternative
that would increase vehicle miles traveled and vehicles trips made each day.
- The ICC ranks second to
last in removing traffic from local roads and major arterials.
- Three of the alternatives
would increase average travel speed.
- All the alternatives, except
the ICC, would result in lower air pollution emissions.
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(PDFs)
Short
Report: The Intercounty Connector: Performance and Alternatives
Part
1 - Acknowledgments, Executive Summary, Introduction, and ICC and Related
Studies
Part
2 - Alternatives to the ICC & Methods of Analysis
Part
3 - Results and Conclusion
Part
4 - Appendices
Press
release
Peer
Review Letters - From Professor Elizabeth Deakin and Transportation Modeling
Expert Keith Lawton
Also available,
with description, on the websites of other report sponsors:
Chesapeake
Bay Foundation
Environmental
Defense
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