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2 unusual facts about traffic congestion


Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association

With a commitment to reducing congestion and providing transportation alternatives throughout the region, GVF has created the Bike to Work Challenge to encourage commuters to bike to work.

Traffic congestion: Reconstruction with Kerner's three-phase theory

Traffic congestion can be reconstructed in space and time (Fig. 1) based on Boris Kerner’s three-phase traffic theory with the use of the ASDA and FOTO models introduced by Kerner.


Gridlock

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, noting that the ten-minute ticketing process actually contributes to overall traffic congestion, has recently asked the New York State Legislature to remove “blocking the box” from the moving violation category.

José González-Lander

Caracas' rapid growth as a result of the oil boom of the 1970s strained the capacity of the city's road network and the need for a rapid transit system became evident as automotive traffic along its modern expressways became chaotic.

Streets and highways of Arlington County, Virginia

Heavily congested during peak hours, the freeway now contains two central lanes that operate as high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes during rush hours while separated by Jersey barriers from the road's regular traffic lanes.


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Creighton Manning Engineering

Slingerlands Bypass (New York State Route 85): Creighton Manning was the lead civil engineering consultant for the NYSDOT responsible for the design of the bypass, along with four roundabouts in order to ease traffic congestion in the area.

David Kohler

An appeal to the Department of the Environment in 1998 was turned down on grounds of traffic congestion.

New Wear bridge

The bridge is likely to be constructed to the west side of the city over the River Wear, with the purpose of reducing traffic congestion.

Second Harbour Crossing, Auckland

It was expected that traffic congestion would only get worse as North Shore City grew further, and Auckland City became more densely settled.

SJKC Damansara

However on 26 January 2001, the school was moved from old block at Section 17 to the new school at PJU 3, near Tropicana Golf and Country Club following instructions from federal government that it no longer provided a “conducive learning environment” because of traffic congestion and noise pollution from the neighbouring Sprint Expressway.

Tanjung Priok

On November 20, 2011 the Jakarta administration inaugurated the city's first railways tourism package aimed at attracting more tourists and reducing traffic congestion from Gambir Railway Station to the Tanjung Priok Station.

Traffic flow

Some of these common features of traffic congestion define synchronized flow and wide moving jam traffic phases of congested traffic in Kerner’s three-phase traffic theory of traffic flow.