The Metropolitan Transportation Problem

Wilfred Owen

Brookings Institution, 1966 - Transportation - 266 pages

USA. The urban transport problem. Role of private sector and public sector transport. Government policy on financing. Urbanization and urban planning.

Contents

• Transportation and Urban Growth: 7
• The Outlook for Urbanization: 17
• ADAPTING TO THE AUTOMOTIVE: 26
• Beginnings of the Expressway Systems: 45
• Role of the Federal Government: 51
• Parking and Terminal Facilities: 59
• III: 66
• ROLE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRANSPORTA: 119
• TRANSPORT FINANCING POLICY: 142
• ORGANIZING METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION: 165
• PLANNING: 188
• FACING THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM: 210
• A Note on Lessons for Developing Countries: 226
• Index: 252

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Metropolitan Transportation Problem; A Brookings Institution study; A Doubleday Anchor book, A502; Anchor Books
• Author: Wilfred Owen
• Edition: 2, revised
• Publisher: Brookings Institution, 1966
• Original from: Northwestern University
• Digitized: Aug 23, 2011
• ISBN: 060812463X, 9780608124636
• Length: 266 pages
• Subjects: Transportation / General