Traffic costs Americans about $1.7 trillion per year:
- $425 billion per year for oil.
- $871 billion per year in accidents, alternate data source.
- 40,100 road-deaths in 2017.
- 2.31 million injuries in 2013.
- $305 billion per year in congestion.
- $109 billion per year in car damage from poor road maintenance.
- ASCE estimates $2.046 trillion to fix ground transportation with Grades of:
- D for roads
- D- for transit
- ASCE estimates $2.046 trillion to fix ground transportation with Grades of:
There is over $1 trillion per year of waste that can be converted to profits and customer savings by repeating in transportation the success of restoring communication infrastructure to free markets in 1982. Link to PowerPoint and KeyNote presentation.
