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Brookings Institution Press
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Pages
455

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Subjects
Urban Land use, Traffic flow, Traffic congestion, Verkehrspolitik, Verkehrsablauf, Landschaftsentwicklung, Traffic congestion--united states, Traffic flow--united states, Land use, urban, Land use, urban--united states, He355.3.c64 d69 2004, 388.4/13142/0973
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2004, Brookings Institution Press
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Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (Revised) (James A. Johnson Metro)
April 1, 2004, Brookings Institution Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-442) and index.

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Washington, D.C
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James A. Johnson metro series, Brookings metro series

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HE355.3.C64 D69 2004, HE355.3.C64D69 2004

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xi, 455 p. :
Number of pages
455

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2004004190
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54503623
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1600388
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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."

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