TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION: EDUCATING TOMORROW'S TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS

Many recent studies on the deterioration of the public infrastructure in the United States have concluded that an effective planning process is an essential element of a government's response to meeting capital investment needs. In at least one instance, a study further concluded that "if planning is to assume a central role in influencing public capital investments, it is important to ensure that the people doing the job have experience of how agencies operate and understand the day-to-day problems faced by those managing public programs and facilities" (R.J. Vaughan and R. Pollard, Rebuilding America: Planning and Managing Public Works in the 1980s). The purpose of this paper is to examine, within the context of a changing political and fiscal environment of transportation decisions, these and other planning skills desired by transportation organizations. In the first section of this paper recent studies of the changing nature of transportation planning are reviewed. This section concludes with several propositions on what, in general, appear to be the likely characteristics of transportation planning in the future. In the second section these propositions are related to the desired skills of transportation planners.

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• Authors:
  • Meyer, Michael D
• Conference:
  • Conference on Surface Transportation Education and Training
  • Location: Williamsburg Virginia, United States
  • Date: 1984-10-28 to 1984-10-31
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 83-89
• Monograph Title: TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING--MEETING THE CHALLENGE
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 210
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Education; Human resources management; Professional personnel; Training; Transportation careers; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Human resources
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00468168
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-039-03914-2
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1988 12:00AM