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Neither roads nor public transit will help?

Posted on October 24, 2011

In the October 2011 issue of the American Economic Review, authors Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner review traffic data from the years 1983 to 2003. Their article, “The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence …

Posted in NewsTagged congestion, expansion, induced traffic, research, transit, VMT

WSDOT quantifies the GHG reduction impact of sidewalk coverage.

Posted on April 12, 2011

“If you build it, they will come” seems to hold for building sidewalks. A recent report for the Washington State Department of Transportation found that increasing sidewalk coverage from 30 percent to 70 percent of …

Posted in NewsTagged emissions, GHG, land use, parking, reports, research, sidewalks, VMT, WA

GAO: Trucking the least efficient mode of freight shipping

Posted on March 23, 2011

Would roads be better used with fewer trucks? D.C. Streets Blog reports: “The Government Accountability Office published a study finding that the costs of freight trucking that are not passed on to the consumer are …

Posted in NewsTagged costs, efficiency, freight, research, trucks
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