Smart Transportation Investments: Reevaluating The Role Of Highway Expansion For Improving Urban Transportation

This report investigates claims that highway capacity expansion is a cost effective and desirable solution to urban traffic congestion problems. It identifies errors in proponents' analysis that overestimate the congestion reduction impacts and economic benefits of roadway capacity expansion, overlook negative impacts of induced travel, and ignore more cost effective alternatives.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.vtpi.org/cong_relief.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Victoria Transport Policy Institute

  1250 Rudlin Street
  Victoria, British Columbia  Canada  V8V 3R7
• Authors:
  • Litman, Todd
• Publication Date: 2006-10-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Economic benefits; Evaluation; Highway capacity; Impacts; Improvements; Investments; Traffic congestion; Traffic mitigation; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Highway expansion; Induced travel
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01036382
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 2006 8:15AM