THE AUTO VERSUS TRANSIT CONTROVERSY: TOWARD A RATIONAL SYNTHESIS FOR URBAN TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Considerable portion of academic literature on urban transportation has been supportive of policies which resulted in extensive urban freeway construction, but highly critical of public investments in transit. This paper challenges these views and points out many flaws in their basic arguments. Criticism of rail transit is particularly emotionally biased and it is in direct conflict with real world trends: the number of cities in the United States and other countries which have constructed rail transit as a key element of their viability has steadily increased in the last two decades. For solution of the present serious urban transportation problems, there should be a rational policy which recognizes capabilities of different modes and leads to their optimal coordination in a multimodal system.

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• Authors:
  • Vuchic, V R
• Publication Date: 1984-3

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 125-133
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 18A
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Private transportation; Public transit; Rapid transit; Transportation policy; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Controversy
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00393628
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 517
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 29 1985 12:00AM