METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION ROLE IN THE 1980S

A new study by the U. S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations focuses on the adaptions in transit services, finances, institutions, and policy processes occasioned by current financial stress at all levels of government and by the devolution of national responsibilities to the state and local governments. This study found, in part, that most metropolitan transportation planning organizations now are locally governed and staffed, their planning is becoming increasingly isolated, less comprehensive, and shorter range, some such organizations are experiencing strong pressure to decentralize or subregionalize, and the desire for these organizations to exercise more effective areawide leadership is not matched with local approval of greater powers for them.

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  Institute for Transportation, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • McDowell, B D
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 125-133
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Economics; Federal government; Institutional issues; Interagency relations; Intergovernmental relations; Legislation; Metropolitan planning organizations; Policy making; Public transit; Transportation; Transportation policy
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: National transportation policies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00393537
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM