Learn about Induced Demand at Friday Talk

Want to learn more about the current state of research on induced demand?

Friday talk, via Twitter

On Friday the 4th during the lunch hour at PSU they'll have a talk on it. From PSU:

Empirical research shows that expanding roadway capacity induces more driving - the so-called "induced travel" phenomenon. However, environmental impact assessments and cost-benefit analyses of roadway capacity expansion projects have historically ignored, underestimated, or mis-estimated this induced travel effect. As a result, they frequently overestimate the projects' potential to relieve congestion and reduce air pollution. That spurred our team at the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (UC Davis) to develop an online tool to facilitate estimation of induced vehicle travel from capacity expansion projects. This presentation will explain the induced travel phenomenon, introduce our induced travel calculator and its offshoots, and discuss how transportation impact analysis is changing.

PSU usually publishes the video and slide decks afterwards, and we'll try to come back and update here when they go live.

Update: Here is the slide deck and video of the talk.