TLDR: SUVs cause traffic jams.
Actual study (full article): The rise of trucks and the fall of throughput by Yang Gao & David Levinson
TLDR: SUVs cause traffic jams.
Actual study (full article): The rise of trucks and the fall of throughput by Yang Gao & David Levinson
Yeah, but so what? The goal is to get people onto transit not into smaller cars. And I say that as a tradesman who drives every day with my pickup truck full of tools.
If bigger vehicles make more traffic what does it matter? Line doesn’t go up as fast?
If you progressively make cars smaller and smaller, people will move to mass transit faster since it would be way more comfortable than cramming into a Hot Wheels car.