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Title:

THE ROAD TO INTERMODALISM

Accession Number:

00634534

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309054524

Abstract:

Since its heyday in the 1960s to the early 1970s, transportation planning in the United States has endured a long period of uncertainty, marked by professional questioning and political inattention. In this last decade of the century, however, new directives for planning and planners can be found in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Although it appears that transportation planners have major new tasks ahead along an uncertain new path, it should be remembered that not all that is being demanded of planners in the 1990s would seem particularly unusual to planners of past decades. To see what change might be required, it is useful to view the major eras and events in transportation planning during the last 30 years. This conference resource paper looks at the following eras in transportation planning: The 1962 Highway Act; Planning for Transit and the Environment in the Early 1970s; Early State Transportation Plans; Planning Shock: Energy and Financial Shortfalls; Shift of Responsibility to the States and Cities: The 1980s; and Characteristics of Today's U.S. Transportation System. The paper then discusses transportation planning in the 1990s and looks at the Wisconsin DOT approach to planning under ISTEA. Concluding remarks deal with future transportation planning directions.

Monograph Accession #:

00634523

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Fuller, John W

Pagination:

pp 113-129

Publication Date:

1993

Serial:

Transportation Research Board Special Report

Issue Number: 240
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0360-859X

Conference:

ISTEA and Intermodal Planning: Concept, Practice, Vision

Location: Irvine, California
Date: 1992-12-2 to 1992-12-4
Sponsors: U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; Federal Highway Administration; Federal Railroad Administration; Federal Transit Administration; and Maritime Administration.

ISBN:

0309054524

Media Type:

Print

Features:

References

Geographic Terms:

Wisconsin

Old TRIS Terms:

Wisconsin

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; History; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Aug 24 1993 12:00AM

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