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Transportation Planning on Trial - The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting (Hardcover)
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Transportation Planning on Trial - The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting (Hardcover)
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Authors' ad copy***Use whenever possible*** The Clean Air Act of
1991 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of
1994 require that metropolitan transportation planning agencies
give high priority to the improvement of air quality. Under these
laws, transportation planners must design regional highway and
transit systems that contribute substantially to the attainment of
federal air quality standards. This new requirement reveals
important limitations to the standard methods by which
transportation planners do their work. The mathematical models and
statistical techniques used by transportation planners appear to be
inadequate to enable them to analyze the air quality implications
of alternative transportation plans. This was the situation when a
group of environmental organizations brought suit in federal
district court alleging that the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission in the San Francisco Bay area had violated requirements
of these laws in its transportation planning and highway funding
activities. This volume provides an account of the legal dispute
that pitted environmentalists against regional transportation
planners, and which demonstrated that regional transportation
planning methods are in need of substantial improvement. This
monograph should be of interest to urban planners,
environmentalists, public policy analysts, and those who apply
mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to questions of
public policy. The authors--an attorney and a transportation
planner who took part in the lawsuit--analyze the specific
arguments made by both sides in this important legal action, and
draw from the specific case broader conclusions about the role of
technical analysis in public policy making.
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Urban planning does not and cannot exist in isolation--there are a
large number of external factors that impact on a planner's work
including politics and the planning commission; environmental
impact studies; and national, state, and local legislation.
Focusing on the interrelations between federal legislation, the
judicial process, and transportation planning, Transportation
Planning on Trial examines the interaction between regional
transportation planning and environmental, particularly air,
quality. This unique volume is designed to help urban planners
understand the legal restrictions and requirements that directly
impact how they operate. It considers two recent federal
legislation pieces--the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Intermodal
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991--that mark the most
important landmarks in a decade-long shift in emphasis in regional
transportation planning. This groundbreaking volume will be vitally
important to transportation planners, students of urban and
transportation planning, transportation policymakers,
environmentalists and environmental lawyers.
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