NEGLECTED CHALLENGE IN METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSPORTATION

This paper points up a critical neglected area in both thinking and action in devising public transit responses to the types of metropolitan areas that are evolving throughout the world. While all of the world's metropolitan areas have growing areas of high density settlement and commercial activity, the growth in the medium and low density parts of such complexes is occurring at a faster rate. This fact has drastically changed the public transportation challenge.

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• Authors:
  • Kieffer, J A
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 215-235
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Corridors; Forecasting; Land use; Public transit; Suburbs; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00458764
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Information, Incorporated
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1987 12:00AM