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The more you add road capacity, the less 'demand is induced', because there's limited amount of people. In other words, at some point the traffic problem is sol
by nawitus 5y ago
The more you add road capacity, the less 'demand is induced', because there's limited amount of people. In other words, at some point the traffic problem is solved by adding more roads.
It's another question if it makes sense to add that amount of road. It probably depends on the particular case.
- throw0101a 5y ago> The more you add road capacity, the less 'demand is induced', because there's limited amount of people. And how much money would it cost to build out enough road infrastructure to 'overwhelm all possible demand'? How much would it cost to move the same amount of people via some other form of transportation? The province of Ontario finds it cheaper to run an entire railway (GO Transit) compared to being able to build out enough highway infrastructure (and it's not like they've stop building that): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA And that's just the road infrastructure: what about things like parking space at the destination(s) of where all these folks are going? How much area would have to be bulldozed for all of this?