Congestion
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For all of its benefits, however, rapid urbanization also poses enormous challenges, from managing
congestion
and pollution to ensuring that growth is inclusive and equitable.
A key reason for this is urban sprawl: with a built-up area nearly 12 times larger than Barcelona, Atlanta implicitly encourages widespread private-vehicle use, boosting emissions, congestion, and air pollution.
A London-centric approach is no longer of benefit even to London, which struggles with congestion, economic overheating, and a housing crisis.
Today’s mega-cities, for example, already have to confront dangerous heat waves, rising sea levels, more extreme storms, dire congestion, and air and water pollution.
Perhaps none feels more burdensome – and downright infuriating – than traffic
congestion.
Many governments have tried to develop policies to reduce traffic
congestion
by making it more expensive to get behind the wheel.
Since 2003, London has successfully implemented a
congestion
charge, while Singapore wants to use GPS technology to police its own congestion-pricing strategy.
Gabriel Kreindler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown that while the policy reduced
congestion
slightly, drivers circumvented the rule by switching to other vehicles.
Research by Lucas Davis of the University of California, Berkeley, had already shown that a similar policy, implemented in Mexico City in 1989, did not reduce air pollution – the intended goal – or significantly ease traffic
congestion.
Despite what drivers – and eventually the government – believed, the three-in-one policy was highly effective in reducing
congestion.
Our data showed that traffic
congestion
worsened significantly after the policy was rescinded.
For example, our data imply that Jakarta’s HOV restrictions were more effective than London’s
congestion
pricing or Delhi’s even-odd policy.
Such a charge has enabled the City of London to cut
congestion
by 30%.
The plan’s proposed
congestion
charge on automobile use during peak times in certain parts of the city would reduce traffic and generate revenue that would go toward improving public transportation.
Traffic congestion, in particular, is not only environmentally detrimental; it also imposes substantial time and resource costs on drivers.
Due to congestion, New Yorkers face the longest commutes in the US, and their children have the highest rate of asthma hospitalization.
PlaNYC would impose the
congestion
charge on the 4.6% of New York City residents who drive to work, while its benefits would accrue to everyone.
However, despite its many advantages,
congestion
charges face some skepticism.
In all of these cities, CO2 emissions declined sharply and
congestion
was significantly reduced, with Singapore experiencing an immediate 45% drop in traffic.
But, as has been demonstrated in areas like air pollution, traffic congestion, spectrum allocation, and tobacco consumption, market mechanisms are often the best way for governments to address such failures.
Traffic-clogged cities need better public transportation, and financing the expansion of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems is a proven way to reduce congestion, emissions, and commuting costs.
Our cities are exploding in size, depleting water resources and creating horrific traffic
congestion.
In the United States, where 90% of automobiles carry one or two people, reliance on such vehicles would result in a dramatic decline in carbon emissions, which would fall even further as a result of less road
congestion
and smoother traffic flows.
This does not even take into account social returns, accrued through reduced traffic
congestion
and cleaner air.
Among its many innovations were a paternalistic approach to saving and use of the price mechanism to defeat urban traffic
congestion
(an approach later adopted by London).
Pollution and
congestion
from trucks, buses, and cars are daily hazards for millions, especially in emerging countries.
Fewer cars may also mean shorter travel times, less congestion, and a smaller environmental impact.
Ending these subsidies would reduce CO2 emissions, air pollution, and automobile
congestion.
AI is the central component in self-driving cars – which can now avoid collisions and traffic
congestion
– and in game-playing systems like Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, a computer that beat South Korean Go master Lee Sedol in a five-game match earlier this year.
In this context, city clusters could be essential to innovation and job creation, particularly in the service sector, while limiting resource wastage, avoiding further environmental degradation, and easing urban
congestion
from overcrowding.
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