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Title:

MODELERS, MUDDLERS, AND MULTITUDES: ESTABLISHING A BALANCED TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS

Accession Number:

00195966

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

Urban model builders and policy makers are turning a more flexible approach to planning and implementing urban transportation investments. This paper seeks to extend these recent efforts in unexplored planning processes to enable the newly emerging transportation planning process to better cope with the uncertainties of complex urban and regional systems. The discussion is conceptual and builds on current literature and trends. Diagrammatic representation of "old" and "new" approaches to transportation planning are set out to clarify and the nature of the emerging processes. The paper concludes that the trend away from highly structured analytical methods of planning toward more synthetic and open-ended approaches is worthwhile but should not be overdone. What is most needed is a delicate balance between rigorous analytic techniques and less rigorous synthetic and qualitative ones. It is through such balance that technicians (analysts) will work closely with politicans and other policy makers (synthesists) to provide flexible responsive, and carefully thought-out urban transportation planning. /Author/

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Urban Activity Systems. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411516

Authors:

Goldberg, Michael A

Pagination:

pp 23-28

Publication Date:

1978

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 677
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309028221

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (19)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Models

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Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Sep 15 1981 12:00AM

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