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Still stuck in traffic : coping with peak-hour traffic congestion / Anthony Downs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: James A. Johnson metro seriesPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2004.Description: xi, 455 pISBN:
  • 0815719299 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.4/13142/0973
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Contents:
1.Introduction -- 2.The benefits of peak-hour traffic congestion -- 3.How bad is traffic congestion? -- 4.Causes of recent increases in peak-hour traffic congestion -- 5.Incidents and accidents as causes of congestion -- 6.Strategies for reducing congestion and four basic principles of traffic -- 7.Reducing incident-caused congestion -- 8.Increasing road-carrying capacity -- 9.Creating more public transit capacity -- 10.Peak-hour and other road pricing -- 11.Demand-side behavioral tactics -- 12.Remedies that increase densities -- 13.Changing the jobs-housing balance -- 14.Concentrating jobs in large clusters -- 15.Local growth management policies -- 16.Traffic congestion around the world -- 17.Regional anticongestion policies -- Summary and conclusions -- Appendixes: A. The dynamics of traffic congestion. B. Graphic analysis of peak-hour road pricing. C. Translating gross residential densities into net residential densities. D.A spatial model for simulating changes. E. Clustering high-density housing near transit stops -- Notes --
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Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992.

1.Introduction --
2.The benefits of peak-hour traffic congestion --
3.How bad is traffic congestion? --
4.Causes of recent increases in peak-hour traffic congestion --
5.Incidents and accidents as causes of congestion --
6.Strategies for reducing congestion and four basic principles of traffic --
7.Reducing incident-caused congestion --
8.Increasing road-carrying capacity --
9.Creating more public transit capacity --
10.Peak-hour and other road pricing --
11.Demand-side behavioral tactics --
12.Remedies that increase densities --
13.Changing the jobs-housing balance --
14.Concentrating jobs in large clusters --
15.Local growth management policies --
16.Traffic congestion around the world --
17.Regional anticongestion policies --
Summary and conclusions --
Appendixes: A. The dynamics of traffic congestion. B. Graphic analysis of peak-hour road pricing. C. Translating gross residential densities into net residential densities. D.A spatial model for simulating changes. E. Clustering high-density housing near transit stops --
Notes --

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