Overloaded Infrastructure

Our nation’s 50 year old interstate highway system is becoming stretched to the limit. Very little new highway capacity is planned. Environmental, political, and cost constraints render major new highway building almost unfeasible.

One need only take a trip along one of America’s crowded coastal highways such as I-95 in the east or I-10 in the Gulf to experience the stress, congested lanes, and polluted corridors that are increasingly characterizing the driving experience.

In just a few short years, by 2020, 46% of the nation’s highways are predicted to be either “exceeding or approaching capacity,” according to the DOT. For urban Interstates, the figure is estimated to be 90%. America needs an innovative solution to attract trucks and cars from overcrowded highways for at least part of their journey.