01045549

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1997-02

http://scholar.google.com...dman&publication_year=2007

Local option taxes increasingly dominate transportation planning and finance in many states. In bypassing the formal metropolitan planning process, these taxes appear to put important regional policy goals at risk. The extent to which key policy issues (e.g., the equity, environmental, and regional transportation impacts of projects) were considered within the planning processes is examined, by drawing from archival research and interviews, for four of these tax measures at a critical stage, when they were becoming dominant in California. How these processes exhibit characteristics associated with “the new regionalism”—consensus building, proactive visioning around untraditional policy goals, informal governance, and network-like organizational approaches—also is described.

01077534

English

pp 9-16

2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309104234

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City planning; Local taxation; Metropolitan planning organizations; Policy; Regional development; Regional transportation; Revenues; Strategic planning; Taxes; Transportation planning

Initiatives; Tax ballot measures

California

Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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