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Alleviating urban traffic congestion

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London The MIT Press 2005 Description: 240 pISBN:
  • 9780262012195
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.4
Summary: "The authors of Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion advocate active consideration of more microscopic policies that attack the problem at the scale at which actual policy decisions are made. Microscopic models, rather than macroscopic models that are too simplified and too aggregated, they argue, will lead to the analysis of a wider and more creative range of policies, at least some of which should work well and be politically acceptable. After developing the themes of the book, the authors illustrate them by examining some areas of urban transport policy that have been neglected by the macroscopic approach. These include downtown parking policy, the encouragement of bicycling, the staggering of work hours by dominant employers, and the use of medium-sized cities of a ""multimode"" ticket that chages cars entering the city center a toll equal to the transit fare."
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"The authors of Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion advocate active consideration of more microscopic policies that attack the problem at the scale at which actual policy decisions are made. Microscopic models, rather than macroscopic models that are too simplified and too aggregated, they argue, will lead to the analysis of a wider and more creative range of policies, at least some of which should work well and be politically acceptable. After developing the themes of the book, the authors illustrate them by examining some areas of urban transport policy that have been neglected by the macroscopic approach. These include downtown parking policy, the encouragement of bicycling, the staggering of work hours by dominant employers, and the use of medium-sized cities of a ""multimode"" ticket that chages cars entering the city center a toll equal to the transit fare."

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