Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion

Coping with peak-hour traffic congestion. 'Timely, factual, decision and policy focused... as always, Anthony Downs guides us to a future with more liveable communities and healthier environments.'--Marcy Kaptur, U.S. House of Representatives.

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Downs, who has written widely on the state of urban America, turns his eye on rush hour. He reviews 27 solutions that have been proposed, showing how none will make much difference. He concludes that road tolls during peak hours, regional control, and a combination of approaches, might help, but notes that only a crisis will convince commuters to give up the free ride they now enjoy at society's expense. Not a book to read if you are already depressed. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anthony Downs is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His specialties are housing, real estate, real estate finance, metropolitan planning, demographics, and transportation. His books include New Visions for Metropolitan America (Brookings/Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1994), and Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (Brookings, 2004).