Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion

Name: Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion
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ISBN: 9780262012195

ISBN-10: 0262012197

ISBN-13: 9780262012195

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Arnott, Tilmann Rave, Ronnie Schï¿½b

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In 2000, the average driver in US metropolitan areas endured 27 hours of traffic delays, a rise from 7 hours in 1980. In many other countries, traffic delays are considerably worse than in the United States, and in developing countries urban traffic congestion is increasing with alarming rapidity. For fifty years, economists have been advocating congestion pricing as the way to deal with urban traffic congestion; but today, even after some successes, congestion pricing is encountering considerable political resistance. The authors of Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestionadvocate active consideration of more microscopic policies that attack the problem at the scale at which actual policy…

Book details

List price: $9.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/19/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Richard Arnott is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside.

Tilmann Rave is Researcher at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.

Ronnie Schï¿½b is Full Professor of International Public Economies at the School of Business and Economics, Freie Universitï¿½t, Berlin.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Economic Theory of Urban Traffic Congestion: A Microscopic Research Agenda



Some Downtown Parking Arithmetic



Bicycle Communting



Staggered Work Hours for Dominant Employers



The Multimode Ticket: A Pragmatic Solution to Reduce Urban Traffic Congestion


Notational Glossary


Index