The pros and cons of traffic congestion
Who every day have to face traffic jams and congested traffic crossing the city considers a horrible trip. However, small business owners and companies located in the congestion zone tend to have differing opinions. On the one hand, these small traders don't like the bad traffic flow will prevent consumers from attending their spaces as soon as possible. On the other, these owners recognize that the places where usually there is frequent traffic jams are good places to establish the business.Matthias Sweet, researcher in the area of transport of McMaster University, tried to balance the pros and cons of traffic metropolitan areas. The main conclusion of the study, published in the Journal of Transport Geography, indicates that traders tend to leave urban areas with much regional congestion but, curiously, like city areas with local congestion."In short, while regional congestion seems to be a hindrance, the local congestion seems to work like a convenience-which implies that they are true the arguments of engineers and economists, indicating that congestion is unfavorable for the economy, but also the arguments of urbanists, who consider the traffic congestion a convenience," reads the study, quoted by the Atlantic Cities.In a previous study, Sweet it focused on benefits and losses on productivity of a city. The main conclusion of the study, which examined 88 congested urban centers, reveals that the congestion, at an early stage, encourages economic growth but, over time, becomes an obstacle to growth â€" more specifically, when a small movement takes more than 4.5 minutes.From this point, traffic ceases to lead people to a certain area, and starts to create quality of life for everyone who lives or works there.The work of Sweet looked specifically for more than 30 thousand business from Philadelphia, United States, 2003 to 2007, and analyzed the local traffic during this period. The American wanted to answer one simple question: companies leave sites that are very congested? The answer is: No.The responsible discovered that companies believe that congestion in a regional area increase the time between work and home, while Central and local congestion help increase corporate and personal interaction. And the crowding-Soon, are beneficial for a business.Foto: zigazou76/Creative Commons
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