The mission

Highway traffic congestion is a problem that's affecting cities across the world. As vehicle per capita steadily increases across the developing world with not enough road and parking infrastructure to keep up with it, congestion has been increasing at alarming levels. In the United States, the vehicle per capita statistic is among the highest in the world (838 per 1,000 people for 2019). For this reason, US cities represent 62 out of the 381 cities worldwide. with at least a 15% congestion level.

Minneapolis is one such city (see the following screenshot) where that threshold was recently surpassed and keeps rising. To put this metropolitan area into context, congestion levels are extremely severe above 50%, but moderate level congestion (15-25%) is already a warning sign of bad congestion to come. It's challenging to reverse congestion once it reaches 25% because any infrastructure improvement will be costly to implement without disrupting traffic even further...