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2023-07-31 15:45:18 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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Repeated studies have shown that adding lanes to highways does not result in "better mobility." Instead, new lanes can induce drivers to change their habits and fill the road to its new capacity, making traffic as bad or worse than it was before. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/traffic-jam-blame-induced-demand https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762976/latest-evidence-on-induced-travel-demand-an-evidence-review.pdf https://t4america.org/2021/10/20/say-hello-to-induced-demand/ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.5822/978-1-61091-899-2_27 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/9b7fd459-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/9b7fd459-en https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/179897/InducedDemand.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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