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.