Gifford, Jonathan Lewis,

Flexible urban transportation / by Jonathan L. Gifford. - 1 online resource (x, 249 pages): illustrations

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prelims -- Transportation and the economic vitality of communities -- Order, efficiency, and the struggle against chaos -- The american highway program to 1956 -- The american highway program since 1956 -- Transportation planning methods -- The evolution of transportation planning -- Challenges to the neoclassical economic paradigm: complexity, adaptation, and flexibility -- The need for a new approach -- Transportation planning: a flexible approach for the twenty-first century -- Reality check: institutionalizing flexible transportation planning -- An agenda for action -- Conclusion -- Index.

9780080506562


Urban transportation--United States.
Transportation--Public Transportation.
Road transport industries.

HE308 / .G54 2003

388.40973

656.1