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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downs, Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Colección:James A. Johnson metro series.
Temas:
Traffic congestion > United States.
Traffic flow > United States.
Land use, Urban > United States.
Embouteillages (Circulation) > États-Unis.
Circulation > États-Unis.
Utilisation urbaine du sol > États-Unis.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
Land use, Urban
Traffic congestion
Traffic flow
Verkehrspolitik
Verkehrsablauf
Landschaftsentwicklung
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The benefits of peak-hour traffic congestion
  • How bad is traffic congestion?
  • Causes of recent increases in peak-hour traffic congestion
  • Incidents and accidents as causes of congestion
  • Strategies for reducing congestion and four basic principles of traffic
  • Reducing incident-caused congestion
  • Increasing road-carrying capacity
  • Creating more public transit capacity
  • Peak-hour and other road pricing
  • Demand-side behavioral tactics
  • Remedies that increase densities
  • Changing the jobs-housing balance
  • Concentrating jobs in large clusters
  • Local growth management policies
  • Traffic congestion around the world
  • 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
  • Index.

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