Reddit mentions of Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (James A. Johnson Metro Series)

To everyone who thinks they are a transportation expert and thinks tolls are useless, I recommend some great reading: Still Stuck in Traffic by Anthony Downs. Anthony Downs is an American transportation expert whose book explores all traffic calming measures and concludes that tolls are the ONLY proven way to actually reduce traffic on roads. Adding more public transit gives choices, but only tolls can reduce cars on the road.

Since you're into transportation, I recommend "Still Stuck in Traffic". It's rather economics-oriented at times, but has an excellent explanation of how traffic congestion happens, and it also dispels some myths about transit. For instance, in the US, transit doesn't help to solve congestion; rather, congestion, helps transit and depending on how it's implemented, transit can actually cause congestion.

For a good, clear, readable introduction to the academic research on this topic, check out Anthony Downs's "Still Stuck in Traffic" and his triple convergence paradox.

If only mass transit made a difference in reducing urban traffic congestion. It doesn't, because of "triple convergence." Read Anthony Downs of Brookings: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Stuck-Traffic-Peak-Hour-Congestion/dp/0815719299 Or read about triple convergence in Wikipedia.