Reducing morning traffic congestion is just one of many ideas that will be discussed Friday at the conference in Austin. The non-profit, non-partisan statewide group is hosting a summit on transportation.
Amongis Dennis Christiansen. He鈥檚 director of the at Texas A&M University. Christiansen says more roads aren鈥檛 the only answer.
鈥淗istorically we have always planned that we could build enough infrastructure to accommodate the demand, and going forward into the 21st Century, that simply is not scalable," he said. "You鈥檙e going to have to operate the system better. You鈥檙e going to have to manage demand better. And the key to being able to do that is new technology.鈥�
As examples, Christian points to smart maps that , buses that recharge by driving over , or even self-driving cars like .
The Lyceum Conference runs at the Hilton Austin. But it isn't free. Registration ranges
