METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: PROCESS REFORM

Shifting public values, increasing competition for public resources, and improved technical capabilities have rendered obsolete certain aspects of the conventional regional transportation planning process. Several recent regional planning reviews and restudies have surfaced a new approach. This paper suggests how philosophy, organization, staffing, and technical approach can be balanced in a new process to incorporate the concern for long-range regional issues with short-range localized issues. The implications of such a restructuring of the planning process will be most dramatically felt in the redefinition of a plan as an open-ended document in response to the current status and future options for a continuing improvement program. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Hansen, Walter G
  • Lockwood, Stephen C
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 1-13
• Monograph Title: Innovations in Transportation System Planning
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 582
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Governments; Improvements; Metropolitan areas; Natural resources; Organizations; Personnel; Planning; Public opinion; Regional planning; Regional transportation; Technology; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Government planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141281
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030902496X
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 17 1981 12:00AM