Flexible Urban Transportation
Flexible Urban Transportation is a sweeping reassessment of American highway and transit policy. This cogent evaluation of how American transportation planning got to where it is today, and its proposal for an adaptive transportation decision-making process, is required reading for those concerned about the problems and prospects of transportation today.
Publication Date:
2003-05-14Author:
Chapters:
- Prelims
- 1 Transportation and the Economic Vitality of Communities
- 2 Order, Efficiency, and the Struggle against Chaos
- 3 The American Highway Program to 1956
- 4 The American Highway Program since 1956
- 5 Transportation Planning Methods
- 6 The Evolution of Transportation Planning
- 7 Challenges to the Neoclassical Economic Paradigm: Complexity, Adaptation, and Flexibility
- 8 The Need for a New Approach
- 9 Transportation Planning: A Flexible Approach for the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Reality Check: Institutionalizing Flexible Transportation Planning
- 11 An Agenda for Action
- 12 Conclusion
- Index
