REAPPRAISING METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION NEEDS

The purpose of this paper is to describe: (1) The process used to reappraise the transportation needs in Boston, Mass., and the results of that endeavor; (2) the new and revitalized comprehensive, cooperative, and continuing transportation planning process that has been established throughout Massachusetts as a means of bringing the transportation decision-making process closer to the citizens of the Commonwealth; and (3) the relationship of the new transportation planning process to the development of the Action Plan, a recent requirement of the Federal Highway Administration. The experience of the BTPR was utilized in establishing similar open and participatory planning processes throughout the state. This has resulted in a shift in emphasis, from a centralized planning effort in Boston, to a locally based planning effort focusing on the 12 regional planning agencies that encompass nearly all the 351 communities in Massachusetts.

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• Authors:
  • Humphrey, T F
• Publication Date: 1974-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 353-362
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 100
  • Issue Number: TE2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Network analysis (Planning); Rapid transit; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00054763
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Report/Paper Numbers: #10532 Proc Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 24 1981 12:00AM