Induced Demand & Roadway Widening: Everything You Always Wanted to Know (and Weren't Afraid to Ask)
- Episode aired Jan 20, 2022
- 15m
Does widening a highway really reduce congestion or do more cars just fill up the highway again? The answer is it depends and a little bit of both. To understand that, here are the factors t... Read allDoes widening a highway really reduce congestion or do more cars just fill up the highway again? The answer is it depends and a little bit of both. To understand that, here are the factors that influence use of the wider road and how traffic engineers analyze a widening project.Does widening a highway really reduce congestion or do more cars just fill up the highway again? The answer is it depends and a little bit of both. To understand that, here are the factors that influence use of the wider road and how traffic engineers analyze a widening project.