The Texas Transportation Institute estimates that highway congestion cost Americans $78 billion in 2007.
The average person probably couldn't cite a specific number, but he knows it's a lot.
Quantifying the deadweight loss from congestion is one thing.
Figuring out how to fix it is another. Proposed solutions fall into two categories: "build more capacity" and "do something else." Depending on whom you ask, the "something else" means congestion pricing, adding light...
Density and congestion, etc.
Whenever I see new data on cities, I'm always tempted to match them to the cities' weighted densities, if for no other reason than no one else does it. And so with the Texas...
Punching above its class
The Texas Transportation Institute has issued its annual report on congestion in American cities. As usual, Austin doesn't do well, punching well above its class. Tthe average Austin...
Punching above its class
The Texas Transportation Institute has issued its annual report on congestion in American cities. As usual, Austin doesn't do well, punching well above its class. Tthe average Austin...
McBlogger doesn't like congestion pricing
McBlogger is a boisterous critic of tolls. No surprise, then, that he doesn't buy my arguments for congestion pricing I-35 and MoPac. He's written a pretty long critique -- and raised an...
McBlogger doesn't like congestion pricing
McBlogger is a boisterous critic of tolls. No surprise, then, that he doesn't buy my arguments for congestion pricing I-35 and MoPac. He's written a pretty long critique -- and...
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