Taking the High Road : A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform
Since the early 1990s, federal transportation laws have slowly started to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between older and newer communities. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 and the Transportation Equity Act...
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Blue Ridge Summit :
Brookings Institution Press,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | James A. Johnson Metro Series
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation
- Chapter 1. Transportation Reform for the Twenty-First Century: An Overview
- Chapter 2. Getting Transportation Right for Metropolitan America
- PART TWO: Financing the Transportation System
- Chapter 3. Fueling Transportation Finance: A Primer on the Gas Tax
- Chapter 4. Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance
- Chapter 5. Slanted Pavement: How Ohio's Highway Spending Shortchanges Cities and Suburbs
- PART THREE: Getting the Geography of Transportation Right
- Chapter 6. Increasing Funding and Accountability for Metropolitan Transportation Decisions
- Chapter 7. The Need for Regional Anticongestion Policies
- PART FOUR: Meeting Societal Needs in Transportation
- Chapter 8. The Long Journey to Work: A Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families
- Chapter 9. The Mobility Needs of Older Americans: Implications for Transportation Reauthorization
- PART FIVE: Other Important Metropolitan Transportation Issues
- Chapter 10. Highways and Transit: Leveling the Playing Field in Federal Transportation Policy
- Chapter 11. Protecting America's Highways and Transit Systems against Terrorism
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover