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Fees To Relieve Traffic Congestion Appendix A Traffic Congestion
According to one measure developed to compare congestion on
facilities throughout a metropolitan area, congestion increased
by 16 percent between 1982 and 1990 in 50 of the largest U.S.
metropolitan areas (Shrank et al. 1993). Congestion in this
study was approximated by an index developed by researchers at
the Texas Trans