Study finds More Roads to Increase Overall Traffic and Do Nothing With Density

Today I came across a very interesting blog post about a study about the solutions to traffic density. This very intriguing study reveals that more roads leads to more traffic. That's not something completely illogical, yet somehow all of us would say, that traffic jams could be put to an end by building more roads. What these researchers discovered is that, with all other variables accounted for, when you build more roads, you get exactly as much additional traffic as you get roads.

So now you're thinking that the study must suggest that we should rely upon mass transit instead. Not this time. What these honest researchers found out is that more transit has no effect whatsoever on traffic density. Additionaly, the study suggests that the cost of building highways is higher that the profit that society receives from this act. These are very serious findings, but to make further conclusions, I would say more studies will be needed.