CONGESTION TRENDS IN METROPOLITAN AREAS

Abstract

This paper presents evidence showing that in U.S. cities suburbanization has been the dominant and successful mechanism for coping with traffic congestion. Suburbanization has shifted road and highway demand to less-congested routes and away from core areas, leading to contained areawide average speeds. The evidence comes from seven major national self-reported travel surveys: NPTS surveys in 1977, 1983, and 1990; a commuting questionnaire included in the American Housing Survey in 1985 and 1989; and the decennial censuses of 1980 and 1990.

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