DocumentCode
1551766
Title
Causes and cures of highway congestion
Author
Chen, Chao ; Jia, Zhanfeng ; Varaiya, Pravin
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Volume
21
Issue
6
fYear
2001
fDate
12/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
26
Lastpage
32
Abstract
People believe congestion occurs because demand exceeds capacity, so they support initiatives to build additional highway capacity or curtail highway travel demand. Politicians work to bring highway construction projects into their districts; environmentalists support proposals to make transit more attractive or automobile use more costly. This article argues that the facts do not support the belief that congestion occurs because demand exceeds capacity
Keywords
operations research; road traffic; traffic control; transportation; efficiency; highway congestion; monitoring; occupancy downstream; road traffic; traffic control; transportation; travel demand; Automobiles; Chaos; Data analysis; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Intelligent control; Proposals; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Traffic control;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Control Systems, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1066-033X
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/37.969132
Filename
969132
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