Pressing challenges face America's transportation networks, despite the passage of two key pieces of federal legislation in the 1990s that offered a new framework for transportation practices and helped to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between old and new communities. Congestion is a hallmark of many metropolitan areas, while infrastructure is fraying. Working families often face daunting commutes to jobs whether they live in the metropolitan outer fringe or the heart of the city. And transportation funding, rather than creating new jobs and economic activity overall, typically shifts development from one metropolitan area to another. Here, experts in the field of transportation provide ideas for reform that could help state, metropolitan, and local leaders apply practical solutions to our nation's transportation dilemmas.
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"Taking the High Road provides an excellent primer for understanding the current state of metropolitan transportation planning, how this policy area has taken center stage in metropolitan issues, and reforms that would facilitate more effective metropolitan governance." —Thomas W. Sanchez & James Wolf, Public Administration Review, 1/1/2007
"This very important, readable volume is designed to influence US federal transportation legislation away from building large highways between and around cities, to serving central cities and metropolitan areas with a variety of appropriate transportation modes....Excellent, fact-filled chapters by distinguished experts cover current federal transportation funding programs with their geographic and modal inequities; meeting the unmet mobility needs of older Americans and the working poor; the unfair stringency of transit planning requirements compared to highways; and antiterrorism measures in transportation....Highly recommended" —D. Brand, formerly, Harvard University, CHOICE, 2/1/2006
"Well-argued, databased case for wresting control of federal and state highway tax revenues away from traditionalists who favor rural and suburban counties over cities." — Future Survey, 12/1/2005
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Bruce Katz is vice president, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, and Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution. Robert Puentes is a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
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In 1956 President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway Program, the largest public works program in our nation's history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anticongestion tactics, gas tax receipts, anticongestion policies, state gas tax revenues, vehicle asset limit, new transit projects, federal transportation law, special transit services, gas tax rate, federal gas tax, gas tax funds, federal transportation policy, transportation dollars, highway spending, percent federal share, congestion mitigation, state gas taxes, highway dollars, transportation reform, metropolitan transportation planning, transportation spending, transportation revenues, transportation challenges, fuel tax revenues, transportation enhancements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In 1956 President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway Program, the largest public works program in our nation's history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anticongestion tactics, gas tax receipts, anticongestion policies, state gas tax revenues, vehicle asset limit, new transit projects, federal transportation law, special transit services, gas tax rate, federal gas tax, gas tax funds, federal transportation policy, transportation dollars, highway spending, percent federal share, congestion mitigation, state gas taxes, highway dollars, transportation reform, metropolitan transportation planning, transportation spending, transportation revenues, transportation challenges, fuel tax revenues, transportation enhancements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Federal Highway Administration, United States, New York, New Starts, Federal Transit Administration, General Accounting Office, Highway Statistics, Transportation Research Board, Bureau of the Census, Highway Account, New Jersey, San Francisco, Anthony Downs, Rhode Island, Surface Transportation Policy Project, Los Angeles, Efficiency Act, Sandra Rosenbloom, West Virginia, Martin Wachs, North Carolina, South Carolina, District of Columbia, Fact Sheet, New Mexico New!
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