Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion

"If you read only one book about traffic every five years, make it this one." --Planning "This study should lay to rest, in prose understandable to all, various popular but erroneous 'Sunday supplement' proposals for 'solving' urban congestion problems. This, in turn, should permit public policy to better focus on the key problem, civilizing the automobile so as to make it a more acceptable participant on the urban scene. And above all. readers should have a better basis for differentiating the useful from the banal among the many different proposals now offered for relieving urban congestion." --John R. Meyer, Harvard University "Timely, factual, decision and policy focused...as always, Anthony Downs guides us to the future with more livable communities and healthier environments." --Marcy Kaptur, United States House of Representatives