“Disappearing traffic, also sometimes referred to as suppressed traffic or traffic evaporation, relates to the observation that when highway capacity is reduced (typically due to provision of lanes for buses, street-running trams or bicycles, wider pavements (sidewalks), pedestrianisation, closures for road maintenance, or natural disasters) some proportion of the traffic disappears, resulting in fewer problems of congestion than had been expected.” (source)
“Induced demand” is the “build-it-and-they-will-come” theory of driving.
What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
Disappearing Traffic? The Story So Far
Shrinking Roads Shrinks Traffic
World Bank’s Induced Traffic and Induced Demand Study
Charles Siegel: From induced demand to reduced demand
I Am Induced Demand (and So Can You)!
“additional lanes fly in the face of everything we’ve learned about induced demand”
Road Space Reallocation; Roadway Design and Management To Support Transportation Alternatives
What cities should do about traffic congestion
Congestion Costing Critique: Critical Evaluation of the ‘Urban Mobility Report’
Changing Travel Demand: Implications for Transport Planning
Miscellaneous Studies
TTI’s Rider 42 (Mobility Investment Priorities)
CAMPO’s Local Traffic Counts: click here & click here
Estimates of AADT: Quantifying the Uncertainty
TTI’s Simulation Model Performance Evaluation for Congested Freeway Operations
TTI’s Dynamic Traffic Flow Modeling for Incident Detection and Short-term Congestion Prediction
TTI’s Travel Forecasting Program for model input
CTR’s The Texas Mobile Load Simulator: Accelerated Simulation of Real Traffic
CTR’s Using Real Time Traveler Demand Data to Optimize Commuter Rail Feeder Systems
CTR’s Quantifying Travel Time Variability in Transportation Networks
CTR’s Examining the Role of Trip Length in Commuter Decisions to Use Public Transportation
Texas Facilities Commission’s 2010 Parking Usage Study
Dr. Chandra R. Bhat (Director, Center for Transportation Research, UT)
Travel Behavior Modeling/Travel Demand Modeling
Reconnect Austin 