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Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

History, Policy, and Practice

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  1. Edward Weiner

    1. US Department of Transportation, Washington, USA

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  • Tackles timely transportation issues: security post 9/11, climate change, energy, congestion, private vs. public funding

  • Author is an industry/government insider with years of practical experience

  • Previous edition named Choice Outstanding Title Previous edition adopted at over a dozen universities and used by public transportation and planning agencies

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 1-5

  3. Early Highway Planning

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 7-17

  4. Roots of Urban Transportation Planning

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 19-30

  5. Launching the Interstate Highway Program

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 31-38

  6. Urban Transportation Planning Comes of Age

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 39-51

  7. Improving Intergovernmental Coordination

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 53-68

  10. Transition to Short-Term Planning

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 95-115

  11. Emphasizing Urban Economic Revitalization

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 117-135

  12. Decentralization of Decision-Making

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 137-147

  13. Promoting Private Sector Participation

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 149-163

  14. The Need for Strategic Planning

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 165-193

  15. The Growth of Sustainable Development

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 195-216

  16. Expanding Participatory Democracy

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 217-244

  17. Moving Towards Performance-Based Planning

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 245-278

  18. Concern for Climate Change

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 279-300

  19. Era of Constrained Resources

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 301-322

  20. Concluding Remarks

    • Edward Weiner
    Pages 323-327
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About this book

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 updated, revised, and expanded edition features two new chapters on global climate change and managing under conditions of constrained resources, and covers the impact of the most recent legislation, 50 years after the Highway Act of 1962, emphasizing such timely issues as security, oil dependence, performance measurement, and public-private sector collaboration.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • US Department of Transportation, Washington, USA

    Edward Weiner

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

  • Book Subtitle: History, Policy, and Practice

  • Authors: Edward Weiner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5407-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5406-9Published: 14 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9717-3Published: 13 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5407-6Published: 13 November 2012

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 370

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, USA, 1987, 1999

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice

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