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Title:

TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION: EDUCATING TOMORROW'S TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS

Accession Number:

00468168

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0039039142

Abstract:

Many recent studies on the deterioration of the public infrastructure in the United States have concluded that an effective planning process is an essential element of a government's response to meeting capital investment needs. In at least one instance, a study further concluded that "if planning is to assume a central role in influencing public capital investments, it is important to ensure that the people doing the job have experience of how agencies operate and understand the day-to-day problems faced by those managing public programs and facilities" (R.J. Vaughan and R. Pollard, Rebuilding America: Planning and Managing Public Works in the 1980s). The purpose of this paper is to examine, within the context of a changing political and fiscal environment of transportation decisions, these and other planning skills desired by transportation organizations. In the first section of this paper recent studies of the changing nature of transportation planning are reviewed. This section concludes with several propositions on what, in general, appear to be the likely characteristics of transportation planning in the future. In the second section these propositions are related to the desired skills of transportation planners.

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Monograph Accession #:

00468164

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Meyer, Michael D

Pagination:

pp 83-89

Publication Date:

1985

Serial:

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Issue Number: 210
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0360-859X

Conference:

Conference on Surface Transportation Education and Training

Location: Williamsburg Virginia, United States
Date: 1984-10-28 to 1984-10-31
Sponsors: Urban Mass Transportation Administration; Federal Highway Administration; U.S. Department of Transportation

ISBN:

0-039-03914-2

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (10)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Human resources

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Apr 30 1988 12:00AM

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