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by Anthony Downs (Author) "In recent years, millions of U.S. metropolitan area residents have come to regard traffic congestion as their most serious local and even regional problem-with good..." (more)
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Congested roads waste commuters’ time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communities—and it only seems to be getting worse.

In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony Downs examines the benefits and costs of various anticongestion strategies. Drawing on a significant body of research by transportation experts and land-use planners, he counters environmentalists and road lobbyists alike by explaining why seemingly simple solutions, such as expanding public transit or expanding roads, have unintended consequences that cancel out their apparent advantages. He argues that while there might be some measurable gains from increasing housing densities, most other land-use strategies have little effect. Indeed, the most powerful solutions, including higher gasoline taxes, increased public funding for transit, and highway tolls, are also the least palatable politically.

Still Stuck in Traffic contains new material on the causes of congestion, its dynamics, and its relative incidence in various parts of the country. In clear and realistic terms, Downs seeks to explore why traffic congestion has become part of modern American life and how it can be kept under control.

About the Author
Anthony Downs is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His specialties are housing, real estste, real estate finance, metropolitan planning, demographics, and transportation. His books include New Visions for Metropolitan America (Brookings/Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1994), and Growth Management and Affordable Housing: Do They Conflict?(Brookings, 2004).


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anticongestion policies, government transportation spending, private automotive vehicles, travel time index, workers using transit, intensive congestion, commuters using transit, encouraging ride sharing, rising traffic congestion, public transportation usage, triple convergence, public transit usage, congestion intensity, private vehicle commuting, future traffic congestion, largest urbanized areas, regional remedies, average commuting distances, triple divergence, exurban residents, regional tactics, transit commuting, bus rapid transit systems, net residential acre, housing surplus
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United States, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Texas Transportation Institute, Federal Highway Administration, Orange County, Bureau of the Census, United Kingdom, Urban Mobility Report, Twin Cities, New Jersey, South Korea, Broad Great, San Diego, San Jose, State Route, Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, North America, Census Bureau, College Station, Hong Kong, International Road Federation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Data Book
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