The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment

by William L. Garrison, David M. Levinson

Overview

While much of the transportation systems in Europe and the United States are mature (if not senescent), the rest of the world is still planning, developing, and deploying new systems. The accomplishments and mistakes of places like the United Kingdom and the United States, then, can teach us lessons that may be applied to places where transportation remains nascent or adolescent. The Transportation Experience seeks to understand the genesis of transportation policy in America and the UK, along with the roles that this policy plays as systems are innovated, deployed, and reach maturity, and how policies might be improved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195346732
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/13/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

William L. Garrison is Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

David M. Levinson is Professor of Civil Engineering and RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

I Wave One
1 Steamboat
2 Birth of the Railway
3 Turnpikes
II Phase 1 of the Lifecycle
4 Inventing and Innovating
III Wave Two
5 Maritime
6 Railroads Deployed
7 Good Roads
8 Transit
9 Telegraph
IV Phase 2 of the Lifecycle
10 Magic Bullet
V Wave Three:
11 American Shipping
12 Taking Flight
13 Railroads Regulated
14 Bustitution
15 Public Roads
16 Urban Planning: Who Controls The Turf?
17 Telephone
VI Phase 3 of the Lifecycle
18 Aging
VII Wave Four: 1939
19 Logistics
20 The Jet Age
21 Railroads Rationalized
22 Interstate
23 Recapitalization
24 Lord Kelvin's Curse
VIII Lifecycle Dynamics
25 Lifecycle
26 Meta-cycles
27 Energy and Environment
28 Higher-speed rail
29 Internet
30 Technology: Hard and Soft
X Beyond the Lifecycle
31 Policy
32 Speculations
XI After words: Reections on Transportation Ex-
periences
33 I-35 W
34 Design of a Life
35 Commencement
XII End Matter
36 Institutions
37 Endnotes

Editorial Reviews

"It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive survey of transportation history than The Transportation Experience. The book guides readers from the days of steam engines and turnpikes to those of high-speed trains and robot-driven cars-blending top academic insight with colorful biographical bites. Whether your interest is infrastructure, public policy, transport theory, or just travel in general, you'll grow wiser from the journey." — Eric Jaffe, author of The King's Best Highway

"Everything you wanted to know about transportation is in this book. It is not only a comprehensive look back at the transit methods that built the nation, but a look forward based on how the lessons from the past can be applied to the modern metropolitan economies. This book could not come at a better time." — Robert Puentes, Director, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative, Brookings Institution

"The book by Garrison and Levinson can be warmly recommended as a mine of information on US and early UK transportation development in a broadly based historical framework." —Journal of Planning Education and Research

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