TOWARD MORE BALANCED TRANSPORTATION: NEW INTERGOVERNMENTAL PROPOSALS

This report focuses on the "regional" transportation systems (Metropolitan as well as non-metropolitan areas) encompassing all modes, operating characteristics and considers the challenge of finding a means of linking the planning for one mode with the planning for another. To meet this challenge, the Commission recommends a nine point program relating to the merging of the federal urban system and secondary highway system into a unified block grant program, the utilization of this block grant, the channeling of funds, the regional bodies designated for federal and roles, state and local financing policies, and the consolidation by Congress and State legislators of established regulatory bodies. Precedents upon which these recommendations are made are stated, and the importance of cooperative intergovernmental relations in the implementation of the recommendations is underscored.

• Corporate Authors:

  Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

  800 K Street, NW, South Building, Suite 450
  Washington, DC  United States  20575
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 307 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Grant aid; Implementation; Intergovernmental relations; Local government; Metropolitan areas; Public transit; Recommendations; Regional transportation; Regulations; Secondary roads; State government; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00129630
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 14 1981 12:00AM