Traffic evaporation
2022-11-12
A term that describe the phenomenon where traffic tends to “evaporate” when a road is closed down, rather than redistributed to adjacent roads.
See Not Just Bikes’s They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better) about the story of 청계천 (Cheonggyecheon Stream), where tearing down of urban expressway led to the decrease in traffic around.
The city of Pontevedra saw a ~90% drop in car traffic after pedestrianizing its historic center.
Paper/Nello-Deakin2022exploring studies the case of Tactical urbanism in Place/Barcelona.
See also#
- Induced demand
- Traffic demand modeling
- Problems with traffic projection