Still stuck in traffic : coping with peak-hour traffic congestion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Downs, Anthony
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2004]
Series:	Brookings metro series.
Subjects:	Traffic congestion > United States. Traffic flow > United States. Land use, Urban > United States.

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.