{"id":11125,"date":"2014-06-25T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2016-06-10T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:11:02","slug":"why-building-roads-wont-necessarily-solve-traffic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-building-roads-wont-necessarily-solve-traffic-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Building Roads Won\u2019t Necessarily Solve Traffic Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/062514_1523_WhyBuilding1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"969\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Image by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/\">http:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/<\/a><\/em><\/pre>\n<p>Building new roads isn&#8217;t the traffic solving panacea that people think it would be writes Adam Mann:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Studies have shown that if new roads are built, then the number of drivers increases by a roughly equal amount keeping levels of traffic the same.<\/li>\n<li>With new roads people will work further away, take more trips, and draw business that will continue to clog up the streets.<\/li>\n<li>A similar relationship seems true for public transportation.<\/li>\n<li>The effect works in reverse too. If highways are demolished the amount of traffic still, roughly, stays the same.<\/li>\n<li>The best way to actually reduce traffic is to introduce congestion pricing where drivers have to pay more for driving on busy roads, thus altering demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the limits to this finding and other details over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/06\/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/06\/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by: http:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/ Building new roads isn&#8217;t the traffic solving panacea that people think it would be writes Adam Mann: Studies have shown that if new roads are built, then the number of drivers increases by a roughly equal amount keeping levels of traffic the same. With new roads people will work further away, take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/062514_1523_WhyBuilding1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14175,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions\/14175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}