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.

"In this revised and expanded edition of his work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony Downs examines the benefits and costs of various anticongestion strategies. Drawing on a significant body of research by transportation experts and land-use planners, he counters environmentalists and road lobbyists alike by explaining why seemingly simple solutions, such as expanding public transit or expanding roads, have unintended consequences that cancel out their apparent advantages. He argues that while there might be some measurable gains from increasing housing densities, most other land-use strategies have little effect. Indeed, the most powerful solutions, including higher gasoline taxes, increased public funding for transit, and highway tolls, are also the least palatable politically."--Jacket.

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