The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation

by Alan A. Altshuler, John P. Pucher, James P. Womack

Book Overview

Despite commuter complaints and some genuine hardship for those without ready access to automobiles, the American system of urban transportation is a resounding success from the standpoint of the vast majority of urban residents. Nor are any developments on the horizon, such as oil shortages, likely to threaten the pattern of auto-dominance. There has been rapidly growing concern in recent years, however, about specific problems associated with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262010550
• ISBN13: 9780262010559
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 512 Pages