TRANSPORTATION POLICY IN THE EIGHTIES

Urban transportation policy during the nineteen seventies has been characterized by attempts to deal with four major problems: the minimization of environmental impacts of transport investments, the alleviation of inequities in mobility, and financial burdens imposed upon some groups by earlier investments in capital intensive highway networks, the accommodation of demands for public participation in transport decision-making, and the precipitous rise of public transit operating costs. Examples are given of policies which have been pursued in attempting to solve each of these problems. It is shown that policies designed to solve one of them have often intensified others.

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• Authors:
  • Wachs, M
• Publication Date: 1977-6

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 103-119
• Serial:
  • Transportation (Netherlands)
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • ISSN: 0049-4488

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Environmental impacts; Incentives; Management; Operating costs; Policy; Policy making; Public transit; Transportation; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Government policies
• ITRD Terms: 263: Economics of transport; 2455: Environment; 132: Forecast; 227: Investment; 1054: Network (traffic); 221: Operating costs; 173: Policy; 142: Public participation; 9099: Systems analysis; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167533
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1981 12:00AM