Book Title: Transportation Policies, Programs and History

Authors: Ivonne Audirac; Amber B. Raley; Jenifer Reiner; and Soheil Sharifi-Asl

Book Description: This open text features ten chapters addressing leading topics in transportation planning, programs, policies, history and emerging transportation trends.

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Book Description

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.

Authors

Ivonne Audirac; Amber B. Raley; Jenifer Reiner; and Soheil Sharifi-Asl

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Transportation Policies, Programs and History Copyright © 2024 by Ivonne Audirac; Amber B. Raley; Jenifer Reiner; and Soheil Sharifi-Asl is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Transport planning and policy

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Title
Transportation Policies, Programs and History
Authors
Ivonne Audirac; Amber B. Raley; Jenifer Reiner; and Soheil Sharifi-Asl
Editor
Jenifer Reiner
Reviewers
Beth Alden; Ann Foss; Brian Guenzel; David L. Hutchinson; Muhammad A. Khan; John Liu; David Weinreich; and James Wood
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Transportation Policies, Programs and History Copyright © 2024 by Ivonne Audirac; Amber B. Raley; Jenifer Reiner; and Soheil Sharifi-Asl is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Transport planning and policy
Publisher
Mavs Open Press
Publication Date
November 22, 2024
Ebook ISBN
978-1-64816-016-5