Induced Demand: How urban design affects your city & the way you live
<p>Induced demand is a phenomenon most commonly observed by city planners throughout the ’60s and the ’70s in the United States, where they were tasked to address the ever-challenging issue of chronic traffic congestion that plagued major US cities. Before this development, the Federal Government had spent Billions on building the Interstate Highway system connecting cities by roads and local governments have been allocating infrastructure budgets away from public transit and onto highway construction. This was done in response to the popularisation of the personal automobile, which was gaining in popularity across the United States.</p>
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