The Transportation Experience Policy, Planning, and Deployment

by Garrison, William L.; Levinson, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780195172515
• ISBN10: 0195172515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 uslessons 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. The work presents case studies of particular transport experiences in rail, road, water and air (with a special emphasis on railroads), and then finds commonalities in all of these experiences with thematic analyses that are often bold and unconventional. Thebook is predicated on the idea that the story of transportation policy can tell us what transportation, is, does, and might do in the future, and at an even broader level, how society has learned to create, deliver, and operate large, complicated systems. It should appeal to students and researchersin a broad array of fields, including geography, civil and environmental engineering, and public policy.

Author Biography

William L. Garrison, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus) and David M. Levinson, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Part I Overview: Looking Around	1	(66)
1 Introduction	3	(11)
2 Policy	14	(20)
3 Planning	34	(12)
4 Deployment	46	(12)
5 Management	58	(9)
Part II Life Cycle of the Railroads: Looking Back for Lessons from the Railroad Experience	67	(58)
6 Railroads Realized	69	(12)
7 Railroads Rising	81	(13)
8 Railroads Regulated	94	(11)
9 Railroads Rationalized	105	(10)
10 Railroads Reinvented	115	(10)
Part III The Modal Experiences: Looking Back and Looking Around	125	(112)
11 Transit	127	(19)
12 Turnpikes	146	(20)
13 Rural and Intercity Highways	166	(14)
14 Urban Highways	180	(11)
15 Canals and Rivers	191	(15)
16 Maritime	206	(17)
17 Aviation	223	(14)
Part IV Complementary Experiences: Perspectives on Inputs and Outputs	237	(88)
18 Communication	239	(16)
19 Energy and Environment	255	(14)
20 Finance	269	(14)
21 Forecasting	283	(13)
22 Time	296	(16)
23 Land	312	(13)
Part V The Creating Experiences	325	(70)
24 Innovation	327	(15)
25 Technology	342	(13)
26 Imagination	355	(19)
27 Benefits	374	(21)
Part VI Conclusion	395	(17)
28 Speculations	397	(15)
Afterword	412	(5)
Appendix: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Chapter 3	417	(4)
Notes	421	(8)
References	429	(16)
Index	445