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Taking the high road : a metropolitan agenda for transportation reform / Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes, editors.

Contributor(s): Katz, Bruce | Puentes, Robert.
Material type: TextTextSeries: James A. Johnson metro series. Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2005Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: ix, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0815748272 (paper : alk. paper).Subject(s): Urban transportation policy -- United StatesDDC classification: 388.4/0973 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Transportation reform for the twenty-first century: an overview / Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes -- Getting transportation right for metropolitan America / Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes, and Scott Bernstein -- Fueling transportation finance: a primer on the gas tax / Robert Puentes and Ryan Prince -- Improving efficiency and equity in transportation finance / Martin Wachs -- Slanted pavement: how Ohio's highway spending shortchanges cities and suburbs / Edward Hill ... [et al.] -- Increasing funding and accountability for metropolitan transportation decisions / Robert Puentes and Linda Bailey -- The need for regional anticongestion policies / Anthony Downs and Robert Puentes -- The long journey to work: a federal transportation policy for working families / Evelyn Blumenberg and Margy Waller -- The mobility needs of older Americans: implications for transportation reauthorization / Sandra Rosenbloom -- Highways and transit: leveling the playing field in federal transportation policy / Edward Biemborn and Robert Puentes -- Protecting America's highways and transit systems against terrorism / Arnold Howitt and Jonathan Makler.
Summary: "Examines the challenges facing U.S. cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas in light of the national debate on transportation policy--including finance, decisionmaking, access for the elderly and working poor, and congestion--and provides reform options that speak to leaders at the state, metropolitan, and local levels"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transportation reform for the twenty-first century: an overview / Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes -- Getting transportation right for metropolitan America / Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes, and Scott Bernstein -- Fueling transportation finance: a primer on the gas tax / Robert Puentes and Ryan Prince -- Improving efficiency and equity in transportation finance / Martin Wachs -- Slanted pavement: how Ohio's highway spending shortchanges cities and suburbs / Edward Hill ... [et al.] -- Increasing funding and accountability for metropolitan transportation decisions / Robert Puentes and Linda Bailey -- The need for regional anticongestion policies / Anthony Downs and Robert Puentes -- The long journey to work: a federal transportation policy for working families / Evelyn Blumenberg and Margy Waller -- The mobility needs of older Americans: implications for transportation reauthorization / Sandra Rosenbloom -- Highways and transit: leveling the playing field in federal transportation policy / Edward Biemborn and Robert Puentes -- Protecting America's highways and transit systems against terrorism / Arnold Howitt and Jonathan Makler.

"Examines the challenges facing U.S. cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas in light of the national debate on transportation policy--including finance, decisionmaking, access for the elderly and working poor, and congestion--and provides reform options that speak to leaders at the state, metropolitan, and local levels"--Provided by publisher.

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