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In recent years awareness of the negative impacts of motor-vehicle travel has increased. One approach to those impacts is automobile diversion, a strategy for reducing vehicle use in congested areas. This paper reports on a recent study directed toward developing and evaluating the potential for automobile diversion in Denver. General traffic problems are identified and a potential yardstick for locating affected areas--the environmental capacity of city streets approach--is discussed. Benefits and problems of notable U.S. background experience in automobile diversion are summarized. A detailed breakdown is given of the various transportation system management strategy-formation elements applicable to automobile diversion, and several implementation techniques are described. Advantages and disadvantages are also presented to demonstrate the use of automobile diversion as a community-improvement tool. Finally, the study determines that the potential for automobile diversion in Denver relies on the degree of citizen interest, the identification and resolution of issues and problems, and sound decision making in the political forum. /Author/

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Automobiles; Environmental impacts; Implementation; Policy; Politics; Streets; Traffic control; Traffic diversion; Transportation system management

Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Research

TRIS, TRB

Apr 22 1980 12:00AM

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