By Sam Staley
The line extra Traveled shines a brand new gentle at the challenge of traffic jam during this simply obtainable ebook. you are going to learn the way we will reclaim our mobility if we're keen to persist with profitable examples from abroad, the place ideas in infrastructure and privatization have made different international locations more desirable and extra aggressive. by means of completely debunking the myths that retain our coverage makers trapped in site visitors, this e-book argues that we will be able to and may construct our manner out of congestion and right into a fast paced destiny.
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He had to trust that someone else would grow the crops that would fill his children’s bellies. Having easy access to food, clothing, and medicine are things we take for granted today. Urban scholar Joel Kotkin notes that throughout history great cities have been havens of sanctity and safety: Yet sanctity and safety alone cannot create great cities. Priests, soldiers, and bureaucrats may provide the prerequisites for urban success, but they cannot themselves produce enough wealth to sustain large populations for a long period of time.
National Transportation Operations Coalition, National Traffic Signal Report Card, technical report, 2005. 10. See the discussion in Michael Bernick and Robert Cervero, Transit Villages in the 21st Century (New York: McGraw Hill, 1997), 90. 11. Joel Kotkin, The City: A Global History (New York: Random House, 2005). 12. org, hosted by the American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials. 13. “The Greatest Stake: The Nation’s Largest Public Works Project,” Texas Transportation Researcher 41, no.
5. S. , March 2004, table 2. 5 percent increase. But the Census Bureau reports that one minute of the increase between 1990 and 2000 was due to a change in methodology. We report the number adjusted downward for the change in methodology. 6. Travel-time index, 1982–2003, average of eighty-five largest urban areas as calculated by the Texas Transportation Institute and reported in the 2005 Urban Mobility Report. The institute defines congestion in two ways: annual delay per traveler and by the travel-time index.