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Title: TRANSPORTATION PLANNING EDUCATION IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Accession Number: 00714964
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Recent federal legislation has resulted in significant changes in the transportation planning and decision-making process. The Clean Air Act Amendments, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other regulations establish new federal priorities for the surface transportation system and contain guidelines for planning, financing, and administering the different modes. Transportation planners with a wide variety of skills will be needed by public agencies and private businesses to adequately respond to these new responsibilities. Educational programs, especially those at the graduate level, must be attuned to these changes to help ensure that the current and future demands for transportation professionals are met. In this research the skills and areas of expertise needed in the transportation planning marketplace were examined and the responsiveness of current urban and regional graduate planning programs to meeting those demands was analyzed. This was accomplished through an analysis of recent federal legislation, national research problem statements, interviews with 46 transportation professionals, and a survey of 78 graduate planning programs in the United States. The research results indicate that while the current transportation planning curriculum addresses many of the existing and anticipated demands of the transportation marketplace, improvements are needed to adequately prepare graduate students for future jobs. The research identified 12 knowledge and 9 skill areas as important for future transportation professionals. The evaluation of the current curriculum indicates that many, but not all, of these areas are being addressed. Based on this analysis, knowledge and skill areas are identified for more extensive coverage in graduate courses.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1498, Transportation Finance, Training, Strategic Management, and Economic Analysis. 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 #: 01399826
Language: English
Authors: Turnbull, Katherine FPagination: p. 57-64
Publication Date: 1995
Serial: ISBN: 0309061628
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Dec 21 1995 12:00AM
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