Urban Transportation Planning in the United States : History, Policy, and Practice / by Edward Weiner.
Weiner, Edward., author
2016
JF1525.P6
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Title Urban Transportation Planning in the United States : History, Policy, and Practice / by Edward Weiner.
Author Weiner, Edward., author
Edition 5th ed. 2016.
ISBN 3319399756
9783319399751
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39975-1.
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-39975-1. doi
Call Number JF1525.P6
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.6
Summary In this new fifth edition, there is a strong focus on the increasing concern over infrastructure resilience from the threat of serious storms, human activity, and population growth. The new edition also looks technologies that urban transportation planners are increasingly focused on, such as vehicle to vehicle communications and driver-less cars, which have the potential to radically improve transportation. This book also investigates the effects of transportation on the health of travelers and the general public, and the ways in which these concerns have become additional factors in the transportation and infrastructure planning and policy process. The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past half-century illustrates the changing relationships among federal, state, and local governments. This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to today's concerns over sustainable development, security, and pollution control. Highlighting major national events, the book examines the influence of legislation, regulations, conferences, federal programs, and advances in planning procedures and technology. The volume provides in-depth coverage of the most significant event in transportation planning, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, which created a federal mandate for a comprehensive urban transportation planning process, carried out cooperatively by states and local governments with federal funding. Claiming that urban transportation planning is more sophisticated, costly, and complex than its highway and transit planning predecessors, the book demonstrates how urban transportation planning evolved in response to changes in such factors as the environment, energy, development patterns, intergovernmental coordination, and federal transit programs. This new edition includes analyses of the growing threats to infrastructure, new projects in infrastructure resilience, the promise of new technologies to improve urban transportation, and the recent shifts in U.S. transportation policy. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in transportation legislation and policy, eco-justice, and regional and urban planning.
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Preface
Introduction
Early Highway Planning
Roots of Urban Transportation Planning
Launching the Interstate Highway Program
Urban Transportation Planning Comes Of Age
Improving Intergovernmental Coordination
Rising Concern for the Environment and Citizen Involvement
Beginnings of Multimodal Urban Transportation Planning
Transition to Short Term Planning
Emphasizing Urban Economic Revitalization
Decentralization of Decision-making
Promoting Private Sector Participation
The Need for Strategic Planning
The Growth of Sustainable Development
Expanding Participatory
Moving Towards Performance Based Planning
Concern for Climate Change
Era of Constrained Resources
Infrastructure Resilience
Challenge of Funding
Concluding Remarks
Appendices
List of Abbreviations
References.

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