Recommendation 4: Congestion Reduction
The American Trucking Associations advocates initiatives to improve highway infrastructure and reduce congestion.
Relieving highway congestion is a critically important strategy for reducing carbon emissions. Improving the nation’s highway infrastructure is a long-range challenge, and the American Trucking Associations has recommended a 20-year program, focused initially on fixing critical bottlenecks. Longer-range ideas include creating truck-only corridors which would permit carriers to further increase the use of more productive vehicles. The needed infrastructure improvements can be paid for with a dedicated fuel tax if necessary. If congestion in all 437 urban areas were eliminated, the reduction in truck CO2 emissions would be 45.2 million tons over ten years – equal to the annual output of a population the size of the State of Colorado.
C02 Emission Reductions Achieved by Eliminating Congestion in all 437 Urban Areas
Top 23 Truck Bottlenecks
