Induced Travel - Mini Lecture by Professor Susan Handy

Susan Handy from UC Davis' department of Environmental Science and Policy speaks about the concepts of Induced Travel and it's effects on our infrastructure and driving.
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[@BuddahBlueMage]

This was super informative thank you

[@pnwtechie9146]

This is what happens when you have an academic who doesn't understand the difference between correlation and causation. If you added some lanes in some rural areas would more people drive? nope.
In Seattle for example (where 40% of people commute by bus) when they added 10% lanes at the SAME TIME the population went up 14% guess what the volume went up 10% as well. Most people don't drive more just because it is faster and denser development closer to the city drives up the cost of housing which forces people to drive even longer distances. The cost of driving has to be balanced against the desire to own a single family home.
Restricting traffic drives up the cost of housing and is a hidden tax on people.

[@GaTechTransportation]

Trust me, she knows the difference. State DOTs across the country add lanes in rural areas with the hope of spawning economic development and it sometimes works. Seattle is a perfect example of a place where they have focused on giving priority to bikes and transit and the result is more people choosing other options. So you can add population and you don't even need to add highways. The reason housing is expensive is supply and demand as well. Cities with high housing costs are places people want to live, often because you have travel options as opposed to cities where people have no choice but to be stuck in congestion.