Issues & Research

Cascadia Center supports revamping surface transportation to better respond to the need for regional cooperation, and corridor-based management and funding. Corridor authorities, including one for Central Puget Sound, plus a better range of public funding sources and private investment, can help metro regions more effectively plan, prioritize and pay for the updated transportation infrastructure vital to economic health.
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Within major metro regions and across mega-regions, high-volume surface transportation corridors are economic and social lifelines. Corridors, and robustly functional hubs and gateways must serve as the focus of managing, planning and funding improvements.

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Road congestion takes a heavy toll on us all, from time lost to increased costs for goods and services. Regions must continue working to develop seamless inter-modal networks of bus and rail service, marine transit where practical, and managed vehicle lanes, while boosting incentives for tele-work, ride-sharing and para-transit.

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The growing social and financial costs of our carbon-based economy have left Americans looking for cleaner options less dependent on foreign oil. Alternative energies and flex-fuel plug-in electric hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) will help accomplish these goals while concurrently, Intelligent Transportation Systems work brings to the mainstream the emerging on-board and in-roadway technologies that will improve efficiency and safety.
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