The Changing Role Of Highway And Transportation Planning Part 2
Since the early 1970s, the continued growth of motor vehicle use, the planning premises and approaches of highway or transportation agencies, and the proposals for highway improvement stemming from them have been challenged on many fronts. No longer is there a consensus that the private automobile should provide almost all transportation. In fact, some governmental agencies have been created whose functions are to make its use unattractive. In addition, relatively lower funding for highways and the increasing cost of maintaining and rehabilitating existing facilities are claiming larger and larger sums of the available money, leaving less for construction. Concerns over the environment and energy are reducing some forms of travel by automobile’ and many governmental policies have been, at least until 1981 when President Reagan's fiscal policies began to be implemented, aimed at shifting some of the remainder to a variety of viable and acceptable forms of public transportation. Increasingly, planning is dealing with. transportation and its implications as an integrated whole rather than separately by mode. Furthermore, where motor vehicles are concerned, less attention is being given to planning new facilities and more to short-term programs and system management, commonly called TSM, to make better or different uses of existing facilities through modifications and more effective management.
All in all, highway and public transportation planners have been£ forced to move away from the earlier engineering orientation. Instead they must concentrate on decision-making made in the political rather than the professional arena. They are still groping for approaches to this new set of problems.
This chapter is merely an introduction to these complex subjects. It approaches them by (1) looking at the planning dilemma, (2) outlining a possible approach to planning, (3) examining the urban problem and public transportation for it, (4) outlining data gathering procedures, and (5) treating several planning situations and the means for handling them. It draws on many sources, and gives references to those that, to the authors, seem most pertinent.
’For example, the gasoline shortage brought a decrease in visitors of about 25% to the more remote national parks in the summer of 1979.
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