@article{1391014,
      recid = {1391014},
      author = {Weiner, Edward.,},
      title = {Urban Transportation Planning in the United States :  History, Policy, and Practice /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1391014},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39975-1.},
}