New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes–in California
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Research on California highways shows that adding highway lanes induces more travel; this tool shows how much, on which roads, where.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about VMT
How Two Cities Actually Reduced Driving
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The number of driving miles declined in both cities even as population (and Uber!) has grown quickly.
All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List
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More traffic, less transit trips, more traffic deaths, greater social stratification: A comprehensive list. (It's long.)
We Can’t Stop Global Warming Without Reducing Driving
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Electric vehicles aren't going to cut it, emissions-wise. We need to do more.
Urban Myth Busting: Congestion, Idling, and Carbon Emissions
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Increasing road capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will backfire.
![Relying on the gas tax instead of replacing it with mileage-based driving fees could cost Oregon $340 million over 10 years, according to the state DOT. Image: ODOT [PDF]](https://i1.wp.com/usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/oregon_gas_vmt.png?resize=800%2C450px&ssl=1)
Oregon’s Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fees: Ready for Prime Time, But Waiting for Approval
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Oregon has led the way in developing an alternative to the gas tax, with a pilot program that levies a fee on vehicle miles traveled. While the Oregon Department of Transportation has spent years developing the mileage-based program and is ready to expand it to all vehicles statewide, it's not part of the massive transportation spending package under discussion at the legislature.