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Transportation control plans and related air quality analyses of transportation projects have been the major focus of air quality considerations in transportation planning in metropolitan areas. Experience with control plans has been mixed: In many areas, tight deadlines, weak intergovernmental coordination, limited analysis of the costs and effectiveness of measures, and lack of public support for the plans combined to limit implementation of control measures. The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 include provisions to correct these problems. The amendments call for the development and implementation of plans to attain the national ambient air quality standards by 1987 under procedures that emphasize metropolitan, state, and local participation, consultation with elected officials and the public, and incremental progress in implementing transportation measures that improve air quality. Wherever possible, the metropolitan planning organization would coordinate transportation air quality activities as part of the continuing, cooperative, comprehensive transportation planning process for the area. The unified work program, the long-range and transportation systems management elements of the transportation plan, and the transportation improvement program would document the actions being planned or programmed to improve air quality. Periodic reviews of procedures being followed and progress in implementation would serve as the basis for determinations of conformity and for funding decisions. Questions relating to the transportation planning process and air quality improvement measures and the factors which would induce agencies to experiment with measures considered inconvenient to the public are discussed.

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1978

Transportation Research Record

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Air quality management; City planning; Coordination; Cost effectiveness; Federal assistance programs; Federal government; Metropolitan government; Public relations; Reviews; Traffic control; Transportation operations; Transportation planning

Clean Air Act

Federal programs; Public support

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management

TRIS, TRB

May 26 1979 12:00AM

• AN OVERVIEW OF THE GENERAL MOTORS SULFATE DISPERSION EXPERIMENT
• ATMOSPHERIC AND WIND TUNNEL STUDIES OF AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION NEAR HIGHWAYS
• DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD TO RELATE 8-HOUR TRIP GENERATION TO EMISSIONS CHARACTERISTICS
• EXPERIENCE WITH CONSISTENCY REVIEWS IN FOUR METROPOLITAN AREAS
• INTEGRATED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND AIR QUALITY
• INTEGRATING AIR QUALITY CONSIDERATIONS AND THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS: EXPERIENCE IN THE WASHINGTON AREA
• MONITORING AND MODELING OF RESUSPENDED ROADWAY DUST NEAR URBAN ARTERIALS
• OVERVIEW OF THE NEW YORK STATE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY DISPERSION EXPERIMENT
• OXIDANT MODEL APPLICATIONS: DENVER
• OXIDANT MODELING STATUS
• PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDANTS IN PHOENIX
• REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MODELING IN LOS ANGELES
• REVIEW OF U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING INDIRECT SOURCES AND CARBON MONOXIDE HOT SPOTS
• ROLE OF THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1977