Still stuck in traffic
Subtitle: coping with peak-hour traffic congestion
By: Anthony Downs.
Contributors: Downs, Anthony.
Series: James A. Johnson metro series; Brookings metro series
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Traffic congestion -- United States; Traffic flow -- United States; Land use, Urban -- United States
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-442) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The; title: benefits of peak-hour traffic congestion --; title: How bad is traffic congestion? --; title: Causes of recent increases in peak-hour traffic congestion --; title: Incidents and accidents as causes of congestion --; title: Strategies for reducing congestion and four basic principles of traffic --; title: Reducing incident-caused congestion --; title: Increasing road-carrying capacity --; title: Creating more public transit capacity --; title: Peak-hour and other road pricing --; title: Demand-side behavioral tactics --; title: Remedies that increase densities --; title: Changing the jobs-housing balance --; title: Concentrating jobs in large clusters --; title: Local growth management policies --; title: Traffic congestion around the world --; title: Regional anticongestion policies -- -- Summary and conclusions -- Appendixes: A. The; title: dynamics of traffic congestion. -- B.; title: Graphic analysis of peak-hour road pricing. -- C.; title: Translating gross residential densities into net residential densities. D.A spatial model for simulating changes. -- E.; title: Clustering high-density housing near transit stops ---- Notes-- Index.