How planning staffers can advocate for best practices
A planner writes about how members of his profession can promote better practices in implementing urban policies.
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A planner writes about how members of his profession can promote better practices in implementing urban policies.
Maybe it’s time to reverse induced demand to resuscitate our love-hate relationship with travelling on the roads.
A recent Planetizen blog claims that news media exaggerate the problems caused by induced vehicle travel. I disagree. A growing body of research indicates that most highway expansions are economically wasteful and contradict community goals.
Induced demand is a popular concept among urbanists, but does its pervasiveness obscure the true costs of mobility?
Consolidating supplementary flyovers and other additional traffic infrastructures might seem like an effective way to curb Dhaka’s traffic congestion. But ‘induced demand’ in economics pertaining to the economic theory of supply and demand, tells otherwise