FUTURE OF STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: WHAT CAN THE PROFESSIONALS DELIVER?

To be effective in todays environment, statewide transportation planning must reflect the facts that (a) comprehensiveness is not feasible, (b) long-range planning is often unrealistic, (c) large data-collection activities and model development efforts will be relevant only to a small portion of the issues, and (d) the professional style of the past-analysis oriented, aloof from the complexity of the organization and politicial environment, technically objective and value neutral-will not be an effective role. Planners should be becoming problem solvers and issues analysis providing timely information for the decision-making process. Most often, decisions will focus on one or more well-defined issues rather than on comprehensive strategies and long-range policy directions. What is needed are analysis techniques with different of comprehensiveness in the scale of analysis. In lieu of the traditional comprehensive statewide long-range plan, the concept of a multiyear program plan is introduced. A multiyear plan contains actions staged over several periods into the future, beginning with near-term immediately implementable actions in the first year or period of the plan and following with additional actions tenatively planned for the short-range (2-5 years), mid-range (5-15 year) and long-range (after 15 years.)

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• Authors:
  • Manheim, Marvin L
  • Neumann, Lance A
• Conference:
  • Second Conference on Statewide Transportation Planning and Programming
  • Location: Warrenton Virginia, United States
  • Date: 1979-4-29 to 1979-5-2
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 76-82
• Monograph Title: STATE TRANSPORTATION ISSUES AND ACTIONS
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 189
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Data collection; Decision making; Professional personnel; Regional planning; Regional transportation; States; Transportation planning
• Old TRIS Terms: Analytical method; State planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00315331
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-029 536
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 27 1980 12:00AM