CHALLENGES TO THE FUTURE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

The environment for urban transportation planning continues to change. Although a large commitment of resources is being made to this field, the future of the profession and its products may increasingly depend on the perceptions of the cost effectivness of planning on the part of local decision makers. Scarce resources and relaxation of federal planning requirements accentuate this challenge. Some key issues and choices facing urban transportation planning and planners in the 1980s are identified. Among these are the selection of the most appropriate role for analytic models, the choice of problems to solve and solutions to test, the relative role of creativity, the need to understand the implementation process, and the choice of an appropriate style for planning. The need for more introspection, self-criticism, methodological variation, and concern about ethical choices among problems, solutions, and tools is emphasized.

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• Authors:
  • Schofer, Joseph L
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 27-31
• Monograph Title: TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE PLANNING
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 931
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Cost effectiveness; Decision making; Implementation; Local government; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Creativity
• Old TRIS Terms: Analytical method
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387646
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309036216
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 28 1984 12:00AM