Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion
Anthony Downs
There is no simple way to aggregate these variations into a single measure of the "average degree of congestion" in the entire region for a given hour, day, week, month, or year. Moreover, there is no one universally accepted definition of what constitutes "congested" traffic. In commonsense terms, the traffic on any given artery can be considered con- Many of the data in this chapter have been taken from David Schrank and Tim Lomax, The 2002 Urban Mobility Report (College Station ...