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Autore |
Downs Anthony |
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Titolo |
Still stuck in traffic : coping with peak-hour traffic congestion / / Anthony Downs |
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Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-81297-4 |
9786610812974 |
0-8157-9655-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (473 p.) |
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Collana |
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James A. Johnson metro series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Traffic congestion - United States |
Traffic flow - United States |
Land use, Urban - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Benefits of Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion; 3. How Bad Is Traffic Congestion?; 4. Causes of Recent Increases in Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion; 5. Incidents and Accidents and Causes of Congestion; 6. Strategies for Reducing Congestion and Four Basic Principles of Traffic; 7. Reducing Incident-Caused Congestion; 8. Increasing Road-Carrying Capacity; 9. Creating More Public Transit Capacity; 10. Peak-Hour and Other Road Pricing; 11. Demand-Side Behavioral Tactics; 12. Remedies That Increase Densities |
13. Changing the Jobs-Housing Balance14. Concentrating Jobs in Large Clusters; 15. Local Growth Management Policies; 16. Traffic Congestion around the World; 17. Regional Anticongestion Policies; 18. Summary and Conclusions; Appendix A. The Dynamics of Traffic Congestion; Appendix B. Graphic Analysis of Peak-Hour Road Pricing; Appendix C. Translating Gross Residential Densities into Net Residential Densities; Appendix D. A Spatial Model for Simulating Changes; Appendix E. Clustering High-Density Housing Near Transit Stops; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this edition, Anthony Downs seeks to assess the utility of |
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