METROPOLITAN CONGESTION: TOWARDS A TOLERABLE ACCOMMODATION

Urban-suburban congestion is not tolerable in the minds of too many people. The transportation community is faced with the frustration resulting from our free choice society--a society where people do make the choices and where the transportation professionals are servants to the society, servants charged with finding solutions that will support citizen-customer choices. Trained, committed transportation professionals, especially a new breed of leadership, is the key to solving the metropolitan congestion crises. In this context, the author discusses solutions through: growth management or balancing of job creation with provision of infrastructure; high tech options (e.g., the European and Japanese systems being developed to provide traffic information to drivers); and low tech solutions such as selective construction authorizations.

• Record URL:
  • https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015023846507?urlappend=%3Bseq=519
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/7938948
• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
  Westport, CT  United States  06880-0055
• Authors:
  • Larson, T D
• Publication Date: 1988-10

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 489-498
• Serial:
  • Transportation Quarterly
  • Volume: 42
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0278-9434

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Management; Problem solving; Technological innovations; Traffic congestion; Urban growth
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00476940
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 31 1988 12:00AM