Induced Demand Traffic
This cluster discusses the concept of induced demand in transportation, where building more roads or highways increases traffic volume rather than reducing congestion, with frequent references to Wikipedia and related articles. Debates explore its implications for urban planning, infrastructure policy, and alternatives like limiting demand.
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Yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Just like with traffic: you build more roads, but traffic stays the same. It's induced demand[1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
It wouldn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Your feeling is generally observed to be correct. Induced demand [1] is a fairly well observed phenomenon.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#Effect_in_trans...
Of course it’s true that people and cars are finite, but that doesn’t mean that new roads are satisfying existing demands. In fact, the term in economics is “induced demand.” Building more roads around a city often won’t decrease traffic in the city, it will just make more people commute to the city from further away.
This is IMO a spefic case of the induced demand concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand).
Bad traffic will expand to fill the road you give it (induced demand). You destroy demand instead.https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/https://www.nber.org/papers/w15376
This is known as induced demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Thanks to induced demand this is generally not true: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-unive...
Were they talking about induced demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand ?