traffic increases towards the city centre

[nessi]

for a project i need to state reasons for traffic increasing as you move closer to the central business district and other factors which might affect it.

So far i know that there is an increase in commuters due to counter-urbanisation. Large roads + motorways link up with older narrower roads in the centre causing congestion. Traffic is also decreased because of ringroads and out of town retail centres.

Have i missed anything?

[Vinyl Lionel]

How about looking at the lack of adequate public transport facing some urban conurbations, people feel the need to take their car but instead could be using frequent low priced (and clean) rail and bus services if available. I have to travel extensively and now instead use "audio conferences", as the team I work with are spread over the whole of the UK, thus reducing dead travelling time. Traffic could be further decreased if more employers had "homeworker" programmes/incentives in place for employees, this would dispense with pointless commuting when the job could be done from a home office set-up. Just a few thoughts...hope it helps!?

[nessi]

hey thanks good idea i would never have thought of that