Title :
Causes and cures of highway congestion
Author :
Chen, Chao ; Jia, Zhanfeng ; Varaiya, Pravin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
12/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
People believe congestion occurs because demand exceeds capacity, so they support initiatives to build additional highway capacity or curtail highway travel demand. Politicians work to bring highway construction projects into their districts; environmentalists support proposals to make transit more attractive or automobile use more costly. This article argues that the facts do not support the belief that congestion occurs because demand exceeds capacity
Keywords :
operations research; road traffic; traffic control; transportation; efficiency; highway congestion; monitoring; occupancy downstream; road traffic; traffic control; transportation; travel demand; Automobiles; Chaos; Data analysis; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Intelligent control; Proposals; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Traffic control;
Journal_Title :
Control Systems, IEEE
