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| "Use Mass Transit," rush hour, Brooklyn, New York.
Light at the end of the tunnel? Or just a darkening sunset over
the Oil Age? |
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| Is your trip necessary?, U.S. Office
of Defense Transportation, Washington, D.C., 1943. |
Transportation (Print and read unless otherwise
noted.)
- James Howard Kunstler
- Anthony Downs, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings
Institution, The
Future of U.S. Ground Transportation from 2000 to 2020, House
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on
Highways and Transit, March 22, 2001 [Full testimony available
for download in PDF format.] Consider in light of Kunstler's observations.
- Improve
Mass Transportation: Action to develop improved urban mass transportation
and railway systems. The Brookings Insititution. For reference;
skim on line.
- Nivola, Pietro S. Energy
Independence or Interdependence? Integrating the North American
Energy Market, The Brookings Institution, Spring 2002 Vol.20
No.2, pp. 24-27. Read on line.
- Moving
Beyond Sprawl:The Challenge for Metropolitan Atlanta. The
Brookings Institution. One city. Read on line.
- New Thinking for a New Transportation Age, Local
Government Commission. [Download as PDF file.
Peruse online.]
- Why People Don't Walk and What City Planners Can Do About It,
Local Government Commission.
[Download as PDF file.
Peruse online.]
- Project for Public Spaces, Inc.
Read PPS reading, below, on line.
- Historic Roads,
Center for Preservation Education and Planning. Read on line.
- America's Byways, National
Scenic Byways, USDOT
- Transit-Oriented Development in Real Communities: Walking the
Walk and Talking the Talk, Local
Initiatives Support Corporation (Information
Resources)
- Part 1 — 03/02/2006 (download
as PDF file). This session was conducted using Microsoft's
Live Meeting and is available as streaming video/audio on
Microsoft Live Meeting's website, with a link here.
- Part 2 — 04/04/2006 (download
as PDF file). This session was conducted using Microsoft's
Live Meeting and is available as streaming video/audio on
Microsoft Live Meeting's website, with a link here.
- Part 3 — 05/03/2006 (download
as PDF file of a Powerpoint presentation). This session was
conducted using Microsoft's Live Meeting and is available
as streaming video/audio on Microsoft Live Meeting's website,
with a link here.
- Sullivan, Robert. A
Slow-Road Movement? New York Times Magazine, June 25, 2006.
- Road Ecology
Center, UC Davis.
- Forman, Richard T.T., Kevin Heanue, Julia Jones, Frederick
Swanson. Road Ecology : Science and Solutions. Island Press, 2002.
View
on Amazon.
- Corbett, John. Sam
Bass Warner: Modeling the Streetcar Suburbs, 1962. Center
for Spatially Integrated Social Science.
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) adn Related Resources
- FHWA: Who We Are and What We Do
- Our Nation’s Highways 2008 (PDF file)
- Influence of Transportation Infrastructure on Land Use (PDF file), report on a workshop conducted by the Urban Land Institute for FHWA .
- Commuting in America (PDF file), published by the Transportation Research Board and based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
- Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2005
- Katz, Bruce, Robert Puentes, and Scott Bernstein. TEA-21
Reauthorization: Getting Transportation Right for Metropolitan
America, The Brookings Institution, March 2003 [Full report
available for download in PDF format.] This was written two
years before TEA was reauthorized in March 2005. Read.
- Katz, Bruce and Robert Puentes. Transportation
Breakdown, The Boston Globe, May 14, 2005. This is the
opinion of at least two of the authors (above) after TEA
reauthorization. Read on line.
- H.R.3
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation
Equity Act of 2005 [Go to Thomas and search for "Surface Transportation Extension Act
of 2005". For reference only.
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