TY - BOOK AU - Downs,Anthony AU - Downs,Anthony TI - Still stuck in traffic: coping with peak-hour traffic congestion SN - 0815719299 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 388.4/13142/0973 PY - 2004/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Brookings Institution Press KW - Traffic congestion KW - United States KW - Traffic flow KW - Land use, Urban N1 - Rev. ed. of: Stuck in traffic. 1992; 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 as 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 balance -- 14.Concentrating jobs in large clusters -- 15.Local growth management policies -- 16.Traffic congestion around the world -- 17.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 -- UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004004190.html ER -