The Regional City
Peter Calthorpe
... region an edge over cities that have focused more on roads, according to an analysis by the Texas Transportation Institute. Portland''s national congestion ranking dropped from twelfth in 1993 to sixteenth in 1997 without the construction of any new highways. Tim Lomax, research engineer for the Texas Transportation Institute, said that Portland''s sophisticated approach of linking land-use planning and transportation planning is paying off: “I like what Portland is doing,” said Lomax.