The Law of Peak-Hour Expressway Congestion

Downs, A. (1962). The Law of Peak-Hour Expressway Congestion. Traffic Quarterly, 16(3), 393-409.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1962

Volume

16

Issue

3

Pages

393-409

Link

https://trid.trb.org/View/694596

Cited from

economics_finance

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Jevons Paradox
  • Transport and induced demand — a wider road lowers the time-cost of travelling a corridor; demand expands until congestion returns; the substrate is travel-time rather than fuel, but the structure is identical.

    This sourceStates the fundamental law of road congestion / induced demand: adding road capacity lowers the time-cost of travel and induces demand until congestion returns.

• Parkinson's Law
  • New traffic expands to fill the added lanes until travel times return to their prior equilibrium.

    This sourceStates the law of road congestion: added expressway capacity draws latent peak-hour demand until congestion returns — the induced-demand instance.

Domain-specific

• Downs–Thomson Paradox
  • The Downs–Thomson paradox, named for Anthony Downs (1962) and J. M. Thomson (1977)

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