 | 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. |
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. 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
researchers in a broad array of fields, including geography, civil and
environmental engineering, and public policy. The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and DeploymentISBN: 0195172515 3.4 MBFormat: PDF Author: William L. Garrison David M. Levinson Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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