| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Still stuck in traffic/ Anthony Downs. |
| Reminder of title: |
coping with peak-hour traffic congestion / |
| Author: |
Downs, Anthony. |
| other author: |
Downs, Anthony. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :Brookings Institution Press, : 2004., |
| Description: |
xi, 455 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992. |
| Series: |
James A. Johnson metro series |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Land use, Urban - United States. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=121724An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0815796552 (electronic bk.) |