Operating Urban Transportation Engineering - Part 4
Looking
to the future, many urban planners approach transportation schemes as one of
several mechanisms that can create new and satisfying urban settlements with an
improved "quality of’ life" and also as an aid in restructuring
existing urban areas. They accuse transportation planners of thinking only of moving people and goods. In their view the primary problem becomes one of
defining the urban form or torms that will function to fulfill human
aspirations. The second step is to plan the facilities, including
transportation, that will permit these urban forms to function effectively.
Finally, governmental mechanisms will be created to coordinate and control
public and private investments so that these urban forms and transportation to
serve them can come into being. This approach will, of course, call for
area-wide community planning and the development of either incentives for or
restrictions against private investors and local government to a far greater
degree than has existed in the past. There is evidence that such moves are
being undertaken. For example, beginning in 1972, the Department of
Transportation, using federal funds as the incentive, called for unified
comprehensive plans for urban transportation before federal grants would be
made for highway, airport, or mass-transit projects. Many other governmental
actions at all levels have similar objectives.
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