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What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand

Oh The Urbanity! · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Transit, cities & urban planning

What it is

Explains induced demand beyond roads, showing that it applies to transit, walking and cycling infrastructure too but with different consequences. It corrects common misunderstandings of the concept.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a clear treatment of induced demand across transport modes whenever threads debate road expansion versus transit.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “had a pretty good video on induced demand as it applies to both car transit and public transit”

    Induced demand applied to car and public transit

    MereInterest, 2022-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Jevons Paradox”

  2. “See "What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand" by the Oh The Urbanity! channel”

    Explains common misunderstandings of induced demand

    throw0101a, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “Induced Demand Is Real”

  3. “The Oh The Urbanity! channel has a good video on this”

    Good video on induced demand across transport modes

    throw0101c, 2024-02 · Recommendation · in “Induced demand is not a useful concept”

  4. “Oh The Urbanity had a good video on this”

    Induced demand applies to transit, walking and cycling with different consequences

    throw0101d, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: urbanism, traffic congestion, public transit, cycling, transport policy

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