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

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Bibliographic Details
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.
Main Author:	Downs, Anthony
Other Authors:	Downs, Anthony. Stuck in traffic
Series:	James A. Johnson metro series
Subjects:	Traffic congestion > United States. Traffic flow > United States. Land use, Urban > United States.
Format:	Book

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

Table of 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
18. Summary and conclusions
App. A. The dynamics of traffic congestion
App. B. Graphic analysis of peak-hour road pricing
App. C. Translating gross residential densities into net residential densities
App. D. A spatial model for simulating changes
App. E. Clustering high-density housing near transit stops.