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Transportation
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Location: Houston, TexasA place where transportation is vital to the heart o a typically
sprawled, Southern city.
Today’s Houston
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Historical Houston
Developed
around the Bayou
and revenue
possibilities, the
city thrived as a
port city.
It also unctioned
as a city o major
exports and
imports
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Current transportation data
transportation and port statistics
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Types + FormHouston, Texas has a population o 2.3
million people and was ounded due to
its relation to Bualo Bayou. In relation
to the city, there are numerous means o
transportation including highways, roads,
light-rail ways, bus routes, bicycle paths,
and underground pedestrian tunnels. Thetunnels serve downtown Houston and span
seven miles, serving more than 150,000
people a day. There are several airports
around Houston, the most known are the
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the
William P. Hobby Airport, and the Ellington
Airport. These three acilities serve more
than 48 million people a year.
Houston’s only existing light rail opened inJanuary 2004, serving downtown and areas
south o it. It includes 16 stations, consists
o a seven and a hal mile track, and carries
45,000 passengers daily. The proposed
light rails include more than thirty miles
o light rail transit made o: University,
Uptown, North, East End and Southeast
lines.
Houston has a 345 mile interconnected
bikeway that spans over 500 square miles.
This bikeway includes, bike lanes, routes,
shared lanes, bayou trails, and other
city wide multi-use paths. There are also
numerous miles o bike trails that can be
ound within Houston city parks.
Greyhound provides services rom ve train
stations within and around the downtownarea. Public bus routes include more than
1,285 square miles, stopping every other
corner along its route. Houston’s METRO
system includes 28 Park and Ride lots or
long-distance commuting.
N
Lightrail
Bikeways
Bus Routes and Stops
Composite
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Houston includes 575.4 miles o reewaysand expressways. Highways serving
Houston are Interstate 10, Interstate 45,
Loop 610, U.S. 59, U.S. 90, U.S. 290, Texas
288, Texas 225, Sam Houston Tollway, Hardy
Toll Road and Grand parkway ( Texas 99).
The Port o Houston is 25 miles long
controlled by the Port o Houston Authority
and more than 150 private industrial
companies along the Houston ShipChannel. The port is ranked rst in the U.S.
in oreign waterborne tonnage and imports
and ranked second in U.S. export tonnage.
contributing to more than 785,000 jobs
throughout Texas.
The rst railroad in Houston was built in
1854. Currently, sixteen tracks make up
Houston’s railroad system and serve areas
such as Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans
and Galveston.
The roads o Houston weave in and out
o the built environment. Most space that
is not developed consists o roads. It can
be inered that roads take about as much
space as the built/planned spaces.
Highways/Freeways
Ship Channel
Train rails
Roads
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Memorial - moment description
Instance Nodes
Diagram 2 describes an instance where
several methods o transportation meet
creating a node seen several times around
the city. This one depicts what happens
when bike/walking paths meet bayou,
meets road, meets light rail routes and
stops, meets bus routes and stops.
Diagram 1
Diagram 2
bus route
bike/walking trail
Light rail line
bayou
paved roads
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Diagram 3 depicts an area where bayou
is very prominent in the landscape. It also
shows streets intersecting bike/walking
trails and light rail sharing the road with
vehicles. It also shows the railroad creeping
into the area allowing the movement o
goods which ueled Houston or decades as
a port city.
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Diagram 3
Bike paths that ollow along Brays
Bayou and Bualo Bayou oten are
shared walking and biking trails that
can go or 12+ miles through Houston.
The nearby connecting trails leadto main attractions such as parks,
stadiums, schools and universities,
medical centers or housing. These bike
ways create connections with the roads,
the public bus, the light rails, bodies o
water as well as highways.
Due to the location o METRO centers
as well as the high occupancy buildings,
there is high bus activity in many areas
o the city. Public buses serve citizens
o the light rail as well as pedestrians
o the city streets where it is applicable
allowing instances where several
methods o transportation happen
in a common area. The bus system
also allows cyclist to mount bicycles
or urther displacement sometimes
directly o o intersecting bike trails.
The light rail, where it occupies and
intersects streets haults trafc on
one side o the road when it passes.
Because o those intersections and the
requency o the passing light rail, trafc
is stopped airly oten. It begins to
unction as a stop light and a deterent
rom speeding in high pedestrian areas.
Such occurances o light rail and road
intersections happen in several areas
primarely around the medical area,
museum district, and downtown.
The majority o Houston’s road are
multipurpose. Most streets have
sidewalks on both sides o the
street, critical to this highly occupied
pedestrian and vehicular areas. On
occasion, there is only one sidewalk
along the street which oten occurs on
streets that ollow the bayous wherea bike and walking trail occur on the
opposite side o the street.
bus routerailroad
bike/walking trail
Light rail line
bayou
paved roads