Induced Demand Is Hard to Explain – But It’s Crucial to Get It

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By Melanie CurryMar 2, 2022, 10:35 pm118 pts
For years, researchers have talked about the concept of “induced demand,” pointing out that when highways are widened so they can carry more cars, they end up creating more congestion. Anthony Downs called it “the law of triple convergence.” As Jake Blumgart explains it in a recent post in Governing,…

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