Edward Weiner

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States (eBook, PDF)

An Historical Overview

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past 50 years illustrates the changing relationship between 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 the concern for sustainable development and pollution emissions. Focusing on major national events, the book discusses the influence of legislation, regulations, conferences, federal programs, and advances in planning procedures and technology.

The book offers an in-depth look at the most significant event in transportation planning-the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962. Creating a federal mandate for a comprehensive urban transportation planning process carried out cooperatively by states and local governments with federal funding, this act was crucial in the spread of urban transporation. 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 environment, energy, development patterns, intergovernmental coordination, and federal transit programs. It further illustrates how broader concerns for global climate change and sustainable development have braided the purview of transportation planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002236
• Artikelnr.: 68528233

Autorenporträt

EDWARD WEINER has been a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation since 1970, where he is responsible for urban transportation and highway policy, planning, and legislative issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Early Highway Planning Beginnings of Urban
Transportation Planning Urban Transportation Planning Comes of Age Improved
Intergovernmental Coordination The Environment and Citizen Involvement
Beginnings of Multimodal Urban Transportation Planning Transition to
Short-Term Planning Urban Economic Revitalization Decentralization of
Decisionmaking Private Sector Participation Strategic Planning Sustainable
Development Concluding Remarks Appendices Index

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Introduction.- Early Highway Planning.- Launching Urban Transportation Planning and 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 Decisionmaking.- Promoting Private Sector Participation.- The Need for Strategic Planning.- The Growth of Sustainable Development.- Expanding Participatory Democracy.- Moving Towards Performance Based Planning.- Concluding Remarks.