Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.
Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.
Agree. Transportation is a problem of flow maximisation. We won’t optimise the circulation in our system if we flood it with transportation machinery instead of focusing on the people.
Ah, but congestion creates scarcity and drives up prices. So there’s a perverse economic incentive to flood the system with machinery.
There is also an inventive to buy people expensive truck as personnal vehicule but I believe that people in this community are willing to look at the externalities.