American Transportation Policy

by Robert Jay Dilger

Book Overview

The author maintains that American politics, institutional arrangements, and political culture have prevented the development of a comprehensive, integrated, intermodal transportation policy in the United States. Dilger makes his argument by examining the development of the national governmental authority in both surface and air transportation. Each transportation mode--highways/mass transit, Amtrak, and civilian air transportation--is examined separately,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275978532
• ISBN13: 9780275978532
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"