Most Americans view traffic congestion as the most serious environmental problem facing communities today. While overwhelming public sentiment has forced local governments to employ a variety of anticongestion strategies, it has been difficult to gauge their efficacy. Only one thing is certain: most residents of metropolitan areas believe that traffic congestion is getting worse, not better. In this new edition, Anthony Downs seeks to assess the utility of anticongestion programmes. Drawing on a significant body of research from transportation experts and land-use planners, the book examines the advantages and disadvantages of various strategies, considers the causes of worsening traffic problems, weighs efforts to remedy or reduce their intensification, and identifies the most effective remedies. This edition contains wholly new chapters on the fundamental cause of congestion, how bad it is across the country, how much congestion is caused by accidents and other incidents, whether expanding public transport capacity can help overcome congestion, and the detailed dynamics of how congestion arises on major expressways each day. Downs believes that many congestion problems are rooted in a lack of regional co-operation among localities. He also argues that building enough new roads to fully alleviate current peak-hour traffic congestion is too costly, and is already impossible in many of the world's largest metropolitan areas. He believes major expansion of public transportation - though possibly desirable to increase mobility - will not decrease congestion much. And he concludes that rationing roads would be unrealistic and ineffective. Since none of these possibilities is practical, Downs seeks to explore why traffic congestion has arisen in our society, why is it getting more intensive, and why it cannot be eliminated entirely.
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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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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 reason. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Public Transportation and Land Use Policy by Boris Pushkarev on 9 pages
- Regionalism on Purpose by Kathryn A. Foster on 4 pages
- Stuck in Traffic by A. Downs on 4 pages
- Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis (Brookings Metro Series) by Robert E. Lang in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Stuck inTraffic by Anthony Downs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform by Bruce Katz on page 14, and page 191
- China's Development Priorities (Directions in Development) by Shahid Yusuf in Back Matter
- The Geography Of Opportunity: Race And Housing Choice In Metropolitan America (James A. Johnson Metro) by William Julius Wilson (Foreword) Xavier De Souza Briggs (Editor) in Front Matter
- In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World by John Thackara in Back Matter
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