The Transportation Experience Seeks to Understand the Genesis of Transportation Policy in America and the UK

Business Wire, Feb 5, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81716) has announced the addition of "The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment" to their offering.

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.

The work presents case studies of particular transport experiences in rail, road, water and air (with a special emphasis on railroads), and then finds commonalities in all of these experiences with thematic analyses that are often bold and unconventional. The book is predicated on the idea that the story of transportation policy can tell us what transportation, is, does, and might do in the future, and at an even broader level, how society has learned to create, deliver, and operate large, complicated systems. It should appeal to students and researchers in a broad array of fields, including geography, civil and environmental engineering, and public policy.

About the Author

William L. Garrison, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus) and David M. Levinson, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota.

Contents:
Part I Overview: Looking Around
1 Introduction
2 Policy
3 Planning
4 Deployment
5 Management
Part II Life Cycle of the Railroads: Looking Back for Lessons from the
 Railroad Experience
6 Railroads Realized
7 Railroads Rising
8 Railroads Regulated
9 Railroads Rationalized
10 Railroads Reinvented
Part III The Modal Experiences: Looking Back and Looking Around
11 Transit
12 Turnpikes
13 Rural and Intercity Highways
14 Urban Highways
15 Canals and Rivers
16 Maritime
17 Aviation
Part IV Complementary Experiences: Perspectives on Inputs and Outputs
18 Communication
19 Energy and Environment
20 Finance
21 Forecasting
22 Time
23 Land
Part V The Creating Experiences
24 Innovation
25 Technology
26 Imagination
27 Benefits
Part VI Conclusion
28 Speculations
Afterword
Appendix: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Chapter 3
Notes
References
Index

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81716

Source: Oxford University Press