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Transportation Policies, Programs and History is a text intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in urban and transportation planning. Contents by chapter include:

  1. Brief history of U.S. transportation policy and traffic congestion: A persistent transportation planning issue.
  2. Transportation planning and modeling.
  3. Transportation programming and evaluation.
  4. Equity in transportation planning
  5. Mobility modes.
  6. Transportation, accessibility, and the built environment.
  7. Transit and transit-oriented development.
  8. Transportation and new technologies.
  9. Sustainable transportation.
  10. Transportation in the Global South.

This textbook is part of a six-volume series produced under the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.

Identifier

978-1-64816-016-5

Publication Date

11-22-2024

Publisher

Mavs Open Press

Disciplines

Transportation Engineering

Transportation Policies, Programs and History

Subjects

U.S. transportation planning, equity and environmental justice, sustainable mobility, accessibility, public transit and TOD

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