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Urban Transportation Planning in the United States - History, Policy, and Practice (Hardcover, 5th ed. 2016)
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Urban Transportation Planning in the United States - History, Policy, and Practice (Hardcover, 5th ed. 2016)
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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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