The skyline of Knoxville.
According to Mcat-test-centers, Knoxville is a city and metropolitan area in the US state of Tennessee. The city has 193,000 inhabitants, with an agglomeration of 893,000 inhabitants (2021).
Introduction
Knoxville is the main center in eastern Tennessee. The city is located about 160 kilometers northeast of Chattanooga, 250 kilometers north of Atlanta, 340 kilometers south of Cincinnati and 290 kilometers northwest of Charlotte. The city is located on the Tennessee River.
The downtown area is quite small for the size of the metropolitan area, so many businesses are located west of the city along I-40. Knoxville is not a very important hub, but it does have a fairly extensive urban area, separated by ridges. The city is known for the 1982 World Expo.
Road network
Knoxville’s highway network.
The major highways in Knoxville are I-40 and I-75. I-40 is the east-west route that comes from Nashville and heads toward Winston-Salem. Coming from the southwest from Atlanta, I-75 already runs west of Knoxville along with I-40 and forks at Knoxville and then heads north to Cincinnati. I-640 forms a northern bypass, I-140 a southern bypass. Well east of town also begins I-81 leading to Roanoke, Virginia. In addition, there are a number of local highways, such as part of US 129, SR-158 and the James White Parkway. In general, the highway network is not very busy and congestion is not very structural. Like most towns in Tennessee, the highways in Knoxville have good capacity.
History
The first freeway in Knoxville predates the Interstate Highway system and opened in 1952 north of the city center. This would later become I-40. In 1958, I-275, the region’s first Interstate Highway, opened. Near Knoxville was the state of Tennessee’s first major highway opening, a long stretch of I-40 west of the city that opened in 1960. The I-75 was also part of this. I-40 was completed by Knoxville in the 1960s, and I-75 was opened north of the city in the early 1970s. In 1982, I-640, built specifically for that year’s World Expo in Knoxville, opened. Between 1992 and 1996, I-140 was opened west of the city. The I-40/I-75 corridor is the busiest in the region and has been widened to 2×4 lanes and is home to a lot of commercial activity.
Traffic pressure has increased in recent decades, despite the fact that Knoxville itself has barely grown since 1970. The surrounding Knox County is still growing, although Knoxville is not growing as fast as the Nashville area, so traffic problems are not great.
