MASS TRANSIT AND THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY: A STUDY OF BART AND THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

This is a book about the political consequences of technological choice. The substantive portion of the book deals with two public transit agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. The author is more concerned, however, with the issues of politics and technology than with those of transportation. This is, therefore, a book about how two different technologies coping with transportation problems can produce significantly different consequences. The intention is to demonstrate how proposals for large-scale technological systems, such as BART, have social and political consequences that were neither intended nor anticipated.

• Corporate Authors:

  Praeger Publishers, Incorporated

  111 Fourth Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10003
• Authors:
  • Zwerling, S
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Pagination: 159 p.
• Serial:
  • Praeger Special Studies in US Eco Soc & Pol Issues

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Needs assessment; Public opinion; Rapid transit; Social factors; Socioeconomic factors; Technology
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
• Subject Areas: Economics; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081628
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ASME Journal of Mechanical Engineering
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 6 1981 12:00AM