Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment

✍ Scribed by William L. Garrison, David M. Levinson

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 470
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While much of the transportation systems in Europe and the United States are mature (if not senescent), the rest of the world is still planning, developing, and deploying new systems. The accomplishments and mistakes of places like the United Kingdom and the United States, then, can teach us lessons that may be applied to places where transportation remains nascent or adolescent. The Transportation Experience seeks to understand the genesis of transportation policy in America and the UK, along with the roles that this policy plays as systems are innovated, deployed, and reach maturity, and how policies might be improved.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Part I: Overview: Looking Around......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 16
2 Policy......Page 27
3 Planning......Page 47
4 Deployment......Page 59
5 Management......Page 71
Part II: Life Cycle of the Railroads: Looking Back for Lessons from the Railroad Experience......Page 80
6 Railroads Realized......Page 82
7 Railroads Rising......Page 94
8 Railroads Regulated......Page 107
9 Railroads Rationalized......Page 118
10 Railroads Reinvented......Page 128
Part III: The Modal Experiences: Looking Back and Looking Around......Page 138
11 Transit......Page 140
12 Turnpikes......Page 159
13 Rural and Intercity Highways......Page 179
14 Urban Highways......Page 193
15 Canals and Rivers......Page 204
16 Maritime......Page 219
17 Aviation......Page 236
Part IV: Complementary Experiences: Perspectives on Inputs and Outputs......Page 250
18 Communication......Page 252
19 Energy and Environment......Page 268
20 Finance......Page 282
21 Forecasting......Page 296
22 Time......Page 309
23 Land......Page 325
Part V: The Creating Experiences......Page 338
24 Innovation......Page 340
25 Technology......Page 355
26 Imagination......Page 368
27 Benefits......Page 387
Part VI: Conclusion......Page 408
28 Speculations......Page 410
Afterword......Page 425
Appendix: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Chapter 3......Page 430
Notes......Page 434
References......Page 442
B......Page 458
C......Page 459
E......Page 460
F......Page 461
H......Page 462
L......Page 463
N......Page 464
P......Page 465
R......Page 466
S......Page 467
T......Page 468
W......Page 469
Z......Page 470