Still stuck in traffic : coping with peak-hour traffic congestion /
Annotation
| Основен автор: | Downs, Anthony. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
2004.
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| Серия: |
James A. Johnson metro series.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=121724 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Still stuck in traffic. |
Съдържание:
- 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.