Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081571923X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Meyer, Harvard University"Timely, factual, decision and policy focusedas always, Anthony Downs guides us to the future with more livable communities and healthier environments." —Marcy Kaptur, United States House of Representatives. And above all. readers should have a better basis for differentiating the useful from the banal among the many different proposals now offered for relieving urban congestion." —John R. This, in turn, should permit public policy to better focus on the key problem, civilizing the automobile so as to make it a more acceptable participant on the urban scene. "If you read only one book about traffic every five years, make it this one." —Planning"This study should lay to rest, in prose understandable to all, various popular but erroneous 'Sunday supplement' proposals for 'solving' urban congestion problems
His specialties are housing, real estate, real estate finance, metropolitan planning, demographics, and transportation. His books include New Visions for Metropolitan America (Brookings/Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1994), and Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (Brookings, 2004)
Neither government officials nor citizens seem willing to consider changing the behavior and public policies that cause congestion. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and waste time, congestion has become an important factor affecting local government policies in many parts of the nation.In this new book, Anthony Downs looks at the causes of worsening traffic congestion, especially in suburban areas, and considers the possible remedies. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Book of 1992 Co-published with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. To alleviate the problem, both groups must be prepared to make these fundamental changes. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. In
"puncturing illusions" according to Michael Lewyn. This book rebuts both environmentalists and road lobbyists, by explaining why neither expanded transit nor expanded roads will have significant impacts upon congestion: expanded transit is of minimal value because it affects so few people (except perhaps in downtowns), expanded roads don't work because of what Downs calls "triple co. James H. Mars said Downs Explains How Hard it is to Reduce Traffic Congestion. I have used Anthony Downs, "Stuck in Traffic" for three years for a short course in urban transportation planning. Students find it clear and yet realistic on how simplistic solutions like "building more highway lanes" have unintended consequences that cancel out the gains.He also looks at urban planning solutions, and shows that so