Transportation
How Transportation Shapes Daily Life Across Texas
Where you live in Texas decides how far you drive, how long it takes, and how easily you reach a job, a clinic, or a school.
Transportation
Texas moves more people and freight over longer distances than almost any state, and it does so mostly by road. This desk covers how that works and where it strains: the interstate corridors that tie the metros together, the trucking and border trade that stock the shelves, the TxDOT projects reshaping congested highways, and the rural routes that decide whether a small town stays connected to work, care, and the wider economy.
Transportation
The I-35 Corridor: Texas' Busiest Lifeline
One interstate ties San Antonio, Austin, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex into a single congested spine, and the state is spending billions to rebuild it.
Transportation
Texas Freight and Trucking: Moving a Growing State
Most of what Texans buy, build, and export spends part of its journey on a truck, which makes the freight network quiet infrastructure the whole economy leans on.