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Still Stuck in Traffic

Still Stuck in Traffic Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion

Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution Press 2004 c. 455pp.

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

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

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