In this new fifth edition there is a strong focus on the increasing concern over
infrastructure resilience from the threat of serious storms human activity and population
growth. The new edition also looks technologies that urban transportation planners are
increasingly focused on such as vehicle to vehicle communications and driver-less cars which
have the potential to radically improve transportation. This book also investigates the effects
of transportation on the health of travelers and the general public and the ways in which
these concerns have become additional factors in the transportation and infrastructure planning
and policy process. The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past
half-century illustrates the changing relationships among federal state and local
governments. This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning
from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to today's concerns over sustainable
development security and pollution control. Highlighting major national events the book
examines the influence of legislation regulations conferences federal programs and advances
in planning procedures and technology. The volume provides in-depth coverage of the most
significant event in transportation planning the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 which
created a federal mandate for a comprehensive urban transportation planning process carried
out cooperatively by states and local governments with federal funding. Claiming that urban
transportation planning is more sophisticated costly and complex than its highway and transit
planning predecessors the book demonstrates how urban transportation planning evolved in
response to changes in such factors as the environment energy development patterns
intergovernmental coordination and federal transit programs. This new edition includes
analyses of the growing threats to infrastructure new projects in infrastructure resilience
the promise of new technologies to improve urban transportation and the recent shifts in U.S.
transportation policy. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in
transportation legislation and policy eco-justice and regional and urban planning.
