URBAN TRANSPORTATION PERSPECTIVES

The authors look at seven ideological, sometimes overlapping perspective that help establish the overall conceptual framework. These approaches are the: Auto monopolists ("Highway Lobby"); (2) Auto apologists (the personal auto is socially desirable because it offers free choice; (3) Social engineers (academics emphasizing short-range actions to create social equity in mobility opportunities); (4) Trustbusters (advocating dismantling the highway trust fund); (5) Transit technicians (in pursuit of a dominating role for public transit); (6) Balancers (searching for the appropriate modal mix; and (7) Ecologists (seeing transportation considerations extending for beyond the objectives of moving people and goods. The authors prefer the ecological approach. The basic question they believe is "not what kind of transportation do we want, but rather, what kind of city do we want."

• Corporate Authors:

  Newcastle University, Australia

  Department of Community Programmes
  Newcastle, New South Wales 2308,   Australia 

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
  Westport, CT  United States  06880-0055
• Authors:
  • Taebel, D A
  • Cornehls, J V
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 5-10
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Newcastle University, Australia
  • Publisher: Newcastle University, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environment; Forecasting; Innovation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Concepts
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00399689
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 987
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1985 12:00AM