NONINCREMENTAL CHANGE IN THE AUTOMOBILE-HIGHWAY SYSTEM

A three-component -roads, vehicles and operations - structure of the automobile-highway system is analyzed. The decision rules among and within components have yielded a stable, s-shaped growth dynamic for the system. Access increases have driven performance improvements, market congestion or saturation has dampened improvements. Innovations sharply shifting the growth trajectory of the system are discussed. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Garrison, W L
• Publication Date: 1984-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 305-318
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 18A
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Decision making; Economic growth; Electric vehicles; Highways; Manufactures; Marketing; Mathematical models; Networks; Roads; Systems analysis; Technological innovations; Technology; Traffic control; Vehicle design; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Change; Growth rate; Modifications; Road networks
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 2248: Decision process; 1282: Electric vehicle; 265: Growth rate; 2755: Highway; 3647: Manufacture; 277: Marketing; 6473: Mathematical model; 9048: Modification; 1053: Road network; 3855: Technology; 654: Traffic control; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Energy; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00396623
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-038 354
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1985 12:00AM