PUTTING TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS IN CONTEXT

The author argues that the problem for transportation policy makers is to use contextual information in a useful and reliable way to make good transportation planning decisions. The trend is transportation analysis has been to wring out contextual factors and get good, hard, abstract data. But this other extreme often leaves too much out: We get numbers, but have little idea of what they mean. We make up stories to go with the numbers, to capture their "intuition," but we are often unsure of how connected these tales are to the actual facts at hand. This article lays out a framework which may lead analysts to a middle ground.

• Record URL:
  https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015047411684?urlappend=%3Bseq=343
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/7938948
• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  44211 Slatestone Court
  Lansdowne, VA  United States  22075
• Authors:
  • Gordon, C
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 29-33
• Serial:
  • Transportation Quarterly
  • Volume: 51
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0278-9434

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Investments; Policy making; Transportation planning; Transportation policy
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00763712
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 5 1999 12:00AM