Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation

by Chad Shirley and Clifford Winston

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Urban transportation problems abound across America, including jammed highways during rush-hours, deteriorating bus service, and strong pressures to build new rail systems. Most solutions attempt either to increase transportation capacity (by building more roads and expanding mass transit) or to manage existing capacity (through HOV restrictions, exclusive bus lanes, and employer-based policies such as flexible work hours). This book develops...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815793812
• ISBN13: 9780815793816
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

It is a very specific book

I think this is a good book if you are looking for models to improve urban transportation in United States. When I bought it I expected to get something wide: something that could be useful outside USA, but the book is more specific, but still a good book. It is very economic and econometric.