This report reviews the factor shaving a main impact on the supply and demand for road capacity, before it considers the strategies which allow to address congestion and improve mobility of persons in urban areas. From different case studies, the report reviews ten strategies: 1) promoting public transportation; 2) promoting bicycle transportation; 3) promoting pedestrian transportation; 4) promoting intermodal transportation; 5) influencing car demand; 6) strategy to improve the utilisation and allocation of capacity of roads; 7) increasing capacity utilization of vehicles; 8) improving the temporal spread of traffic volume; 9) reducing the impacts of incidents; and 10) more compliant handling of road works and maintenance; and makes recommendations to road authorities. (Author/publisher) This report is available from the Internet site of the World Road Association (PIARC): http://www.piarc.org
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