Still stuck in traffic : coping with peak-hour traffic congestion /
Anthony Downs.
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
- xi, 455 p. :
- James A. Johnson metro series .
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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Traffic congestion--United States. Traffic flow--United States. Land use, Urban--United States.