This singular book describes various aspects of the commuting experience and delineates a process linking causes and consequences of commuting stress. The authors quote extensive survey data from metropolitan areas and examine literature on the known psychological, physiological, attitudinal, and behavioral consequences of commuting. They then provide a model integrating these variables. This comprehensive text features specific coping recommendations at the individual, governmental, and organizational levels.

The main recommendations of this study stress (1) increased action by private and public employers to provide carpool matching services, to create employee incentives for participation, and take other actions such as permitting flexible work hours; and (2) increased action by State and local highway agencies to provide preferential highway treatment for carpools and buses.

Offers a series of images, inspired by historic war posters, that encourage the American people to conserve energy, take more interest in foreign affairs, and advance the War on Terrorism, and provides supporting arguments.