Causal
Chain:
a)
Urban transportation, a past genius
innovation, has now become an outdated model with necessary improvements. What used to be a convenient and fast method
of traveling has now become congested and bug-riddled movement. As Tillo E. Kuhn of UC Berkley states in The Economics of Transportation Planning in
Urban Areas,
Peak-hour
commuter service may be regarded as the great underdeveloped area of the entire
transportation industry.' Clearly, something needs to be done and yet so far
little systematic attention has been given to this core problem
It is clear through studies and research that the increase in labor
productivity has caused an increase in traffic congestion.
b)
Increase Labor productivity results
in more supply of cars
c)
More supply of cars result in
lowering of price of cars
d)
Low price of cars result in
more consumer of cars
e)
More buyers result in more cars
on the street
f)
More cars on the street result
in congested urban transportation system.
As we have seen through the causual chain, increase labor productivity
leads to more cars on the road which means traffic congestion. Tillo E. Kuhn describes it as a “almost
inevitable result of growth and progress.”
Common
Factor:
a)
Urban transportation, a past
genius innovation, has now become an outdated model with necessary improvements. What used to be a convenient and fast method
of traveling has now become congested and bug-riddled movement. As Tillo E. Kuhn of UC Berkley states in The Economics of Transportation Planning in
Urban Areas,
Peak-hour
commuter service may be regarded as the great underdeveloped area of the entire
transportation industry.' Clearly, something needs to be done and yet so far
little systematic attention has been given to this core problem
It is clear through that the increase in labor productivity has
caused an increase in traffic congestion.
b)
The labor productivity and
traffic congestion is one of a supply and prices issue. As supply goes up, prices go down, which
means consumers own more of the product.
A historical example of supply and price is the sale of sugar. Sugar, which once was reserved for only the
high kings of queens of nations, due to its bleak supply, is now easily
distributed across all homes due to increased resources. As the supply of sugar went up, prices went
down.
c)
The Supply and prices of Sugar
is akin to the supply and prices of cars.
Increase labor productivity has increased the supply of both
d)
Therefore, the increase of
labor productivity most likely caused the increase car congestions in the urban
transportation system today.
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