INDUCED HIGHWAY TRAVEL: TRANSPORTATION POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR CONGESTED METROPOLITAN AREAS
Certain perceptions about the impacts of induced highway travel prevail among some metropolitan transportation stakeholders and are as follows: 1) new personal highway travel induced by highway expansion accounts for most of the observed travel growth; 2) metropolitan planners do not account for induced personal highway travel in their traffic forecasts for expanded highways; and 3) it is pointless to expand highways because induced personal highway travel "consumes" most or all of the added capacity. These negative perceptions are being used as arguments to stop highway expansions in metropolitan areas. This paper acknowledges that induced travel is an issue that needs to be addressed, clarifies the issues, and discusses how the issues can be addressed in the transportation planning process and in transportation investment decisions.
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Corporate Authors:
Eno Transportation Foundation
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Authors:
- DeCorla-Souza, P
- Publication Date: 2000
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 13-30
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Serial:
- Transportation Quarterly
- Volume: 54
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
- ISSN: 0278-9434
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Highway planning; Highway travel; Metropolitan areas; Traffic forecasting; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel behavior
- Uncontrolled Terms: Highway expansion; Transportation investment
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00792582
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: May 11 2000 12:00AM