Competing mobility needs: The users, actors, and discourses in Atlanta, Georgia

There is a growing use of sales tax referendums to fund transportation in the US; this takes conflicts over funding out of the technical planning process and into the public arena. An analytical framework is presented that examines the interactions between transport users, political actors, and discourses in the competition over transport resources. A case study of the selection of projects for a tax referendum in Atlanta, Georgia is used to illustrate the importance of understanding the interactions between all three factors. The outcome of the project selection represents the growing importance of the choice discourse in Atlanta. The political power of actors is not correlated to the size of transport user groups they represent. Understanding the differences in discourse is important to understand disagreements within actor coalitions.

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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
Authors:
- Paget-Seekins, Laurel
Publication Date: 2013-5

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Print
Features: Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 142-149
Serial:
- Transport Policy
- Volume: 27
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0967-070X
- Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/096707X

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Case studies; Decision making; Financing; Political factors; Public opinion; Public participation; Resource allocation; Sales tax; Transportation policy
Geographic Terms: Atlanta (Georgia)
Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

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Accession Number: 01483500
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: May 20 2013 3:31PM