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BL
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686203
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b508392
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Downs, Anthony.
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| Title & Author
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Still stuck in traffic : coping with peak-hour traffic congestion /\ Anthony Downs.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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James A. Johnson metro series
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xi, 455 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0815796552
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| Notes
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Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Land use, Urban-- United States.
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Traffic congestion-- United States.
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Traffic flow-- United States.
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Downs, Anthony.
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