I am a graduate student studying Transportation Systems at the University of Virginia. As a previous transportation department employee, I was active in the design and implementation of a Freeway Traffic Management System. Comparable to several other Traffic Management Systems visited across the country, the highway mode of transportation was almost exclusively the sole recipient of the potential benefits of these systems.
Individual systems seem to have valuable modal information.
A user could look in one place and see relative comparisons across modes of the times involved to travel from location to location. Keep this context in mind while answering the following. Please elaborate either way. Open discussion or private responses are desired. If you respond privately to the e-mail address your response will be held in confidence.