Transportation infrastructure
Subtitle: the challenges of rebuilding America
By: Marlon G. Boarnet, editor.
Contributors: Boarnet, Marlon Gary.
Series: Planning Advisory Service report -- no. 557; Report (American Planning Association. Planning Advisory Service) -- no. 557.
Publisher: American Planning Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781932364750
Subjects: Transportation -- United States -- Planning; Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States
Description: Transportation infrastructure is one of the most pressing issues for planners and communities today. In the short term, stimulus funding is being used to create jobs and fix critical systems; in the long run, communities are struggling to determine how best to restructure transport networks to encourage better land use and to foster reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. This report, edited by Marlon Boarnet, was compiled with an eye to the urgency and severity of the challenges that we now face. Some of the leading researchers, scholars, and practitioners in transportation planning put forth fresh best practices and visionary ideas. Contributors include Robert Cervero, Ellen Greenberg, Robert Puentes, Daniel Sperling, and Petra Todorovich. Also here is the discussion among three big-city planning directors William Anderson (San Diego), Barbara Sporlein (Minneapolis), and Harriet Tregoning (Washington, D.C.) that took place at APA's 2009 National Planning Conference in Minneapolis.
Notes: Cover title.

"July 2009"--p. [2] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1: Transportation planning: crisis and opportunity / Marlon G. Boarnet; title: Ch. 2: The federal role; title: The federal agenda for rebuilding America / Petra Todorovich; title: A bridge to somewhere: a new transportation program for the 21st century / Robert Puentes; title: The Transportation for America agenda / Mariia Zimmerman; title: Ch. 3: Transportation infrastructure and urban growth and development patterns; title: Highway-induced development: what research in metropolitan areas tells us / Reid Ewing; title: Infrastructure and development: planning matters / Robert Cervero; title: Ch. 4: Infrastructure and global competitiveness in Southern California; title: Regional transportation planning for Southern California ports / Michael Armstrong; title: Policy innovations in Southern California ports / Thomas O'Brien; title: Sustainable goods movement in Southern California: the promise of collaborative planning / Marlon G. Boarnet ... [et al.]; title: Ch. 5: America's commercial waterways: an underutilized resource / Noël P. Comeaux; title: Ch. 6: Sustainable streets: an essential emerging practice / Ellen Greenberg; title: Ch. 7: Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation / Daniel Sperling, Deborah Salon, and Nic Lutsey; title: Ch. 8: Big city planning directors' approaches to infrastructure / William R. Anderson ... [et al.]; title: Ch. 9: A new paradigm for transportation planning / Robert E. Passwell.