Political influence in transportation planning
Subtitle: the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission's regional transportation plan
By: James Houston Banks
Series: Dissertation series -- UCB-ITS-77-1
Publisher: Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: Regional planning; Political aspects; Urban transportation; Planning; Politics and government; County government; Transportation; Municipal government; Transports urbains; Aménagement du territoire; Aspect politique; Planification; Administration de comté; Transport; Administration municipale; California. Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Other titles: San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission's regional transportation plan
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of California at Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-556).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The setting: the San Francisco Bay Area. Physical features ; Economic structure ; Political structure ; Transportation system; title: MTC's political environment. Bay Area transportation planning and politics ; The funding system ; Transportation decision-making in the Bay Area prior to MTC.; title: A model of political influence in transportation planning. Introduction: the question of influence; title: An isolated-decision model. Elements of the model ; Propositions concerning isolated decisions ; Application of isolated-decision models to case studies; title: An organizational-evolution model. Domain establishment ; The evolution of domain ; The evolution of political mechanisms ; Political influence in an evolving institutional system.; title: Introduction to case studies. The actors. Actors within MTC's immediate sphere of activity ; Actors outside MTC's immediate sphere of activity; title: Political resources. Economic resources ; Technical resources ; "Pure" political resources; title: MTC's formal domain; title: MTC as a political mechanism. Structure ; Procedures.; title: Case studies of major MTC decisions, Part I: Creation, initial organization and staffing, and initial planning phases. Creation; title: Initial organization and staffing; title: Initial planning phase. Policies and preparations: December, 1972-February, 1973 ; Categories and confusion: March-April, 1973 ; The final push: May, 1973 ; Reactions and revision: June, 1973.; title: Case studies of major MTC decisions, Part II: Initial plan implementation phase. The Dumbarton Bridge case; title: The environmental impact report; title: The Napa Bridge controversy; title: Institutional relationships: the report to Caltrans, the FAU funding issue, and the Metropolitan Transit Federation. The report to California ; The FAU funding issue ; The Metropolitan Transit Federation; title: The 1974 plan revisions; title: The transportation control plan; title: The I-580 case. Introduction ; The draft environmental impact statement and its first supplement ; I-580 and the MTC plan; title: The second supplement to the EIS ; The MTC staff report ; The project approval actions ; Epilogue.; title: A test of the model of political influences in regional transportation planning. The establishment and evolution of domain. Domain ideals of outside actors ; The MTC domain ; MTC domain defense strategies and actions to secure political resources ; Risk propensity; title: Evolution of the political mechanism; title: Political influence in an evolving institutional system.; title: Conclusions and recommendations for further research. Conclusions; title: Recommendations for further research.; title: Appendix A. Sources of information; title: Appendix B. Comparison of Sierra Club positions on highway issues with those of MTC's April 11 and May 15, 1973, versions of section III-C; title: Appendix C. MTC non-facility programs included in the April 25, 1973 draft of Section III-D of the regional transportation plan.