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January 9 |
Overview of the Course: Course Syllabi Handed Out Guest Speaker: Gerry Dedenbach, Senior Planner, Staff to Gainesville Urbanized Area Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization (MTPO) Video: Coming and Going: Road to the Future Instructor (and some members of the class) to attend Annual Conference of Transportation Research Board No Readings |
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January 16 |
Overview of Course: Assignments and ReadingsIntroduction to Urban Transportation Policy Required Readings: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Preface, pp.
xvii-xxiv Chapter 1: The
Crisis of U.S. Cities and Metropolitan Areas: An Overview Dittmar, Hank. “A Broader Context for Transportation Planning: Not Just an End in Itself,” Journal of the American Planning Association Vol. 61, Number 1 (Winter 1995). Hanson, Susan. “Getting There: Urban Transportation in Context, ” The Geography of Urban Transportation, Second Edition, The Guilford Press, New York, 1995, pp. 3-25. (on reserve) Skim: Hu, Patricia and Jennifer Young. “Summary of Travel Trends 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. http://cta.ed.ornl.gov/npts/1995/Doc/NPTS_Booklet.pdf ***For January 23: Go to the BTS website and search for data on a topic that is of interest to you. Prepare a written (it can be hand-written) description of something new and interesting that you learned in data sources. This should be a transportation statistic or other data and not simply something new about transportation. In class on January 23, students will briefly describe what they learned in these data sources. |
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January 23 |
City-Transportation RelationshipsTransportation, Telecommunications and Land Use Interactions Required Readings: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 2: The
City-Transportation Relationship Heikkila, Eric. 2000.
“Chapter 4: The Economics of
Urban Structure.” The Economics of
Planning. New Brunswick, NY:
Center for Urban Policy Research. Plaut, Pnina Ohanna.
“Telecommunication vs. Transportation,” Access Vol. 10, pp. 21 - 25 (Spring 1997) Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson. “Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal?” and Reid Ewing. Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable? Journal of the American Planning Association 63, 1: 95-126. Recommended Reading:M. Webber, “The Urban Place and Nonplace Urban Realm, in M. Webber et al. Explorations into Urban Structure, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. |
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January 30 |
City-Transportation RelationshipsCongestion; Transportation Subsidies Required Readings: Heikkila, Eric. 2000.
“Chapter 6: The Economics of Traffic Congestion.” The Economics of Planning. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy
Research. DeLucchi, Mark. “Total Cost of Motor-Vehicle Use,” Access 8: 7- 13 (Spring 1996). M. Wachs. “U.S. Transit Subsidy Policy: In Need of Reform.” Science (June 30, 1989). pp 1545-1549. Skim: Murphy, James J. and Mark DeLucchi. 1997. “A Review of the Literature on Social Costs of Motor Vehicle Use in the United States.” http://www.bts.gov/ntl/data/murphy.pdf Recommended Reading: Downs, Anthony. Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion, The Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C. (on reserve) Chapter 1: Causes of Recent Increases in Traffic Congestion Chapter 2: Strategies for Reducing Traffic Congestion and Four Traffic Principles *** Proposed Paper Topics due at beginning of class. |
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February 6 |
Transportation Policies and Practices in the United StatesEnvironmental Impacts of the Transportation System Required Readings: Vuchic, Vukan. 1999.
Transportation for Livable Cities. New
Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 3: How Did We Get Here? Transportation Policies and Practices in
the United States Weiner, Ed. “Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview Fifth Edition,” http://www.bts.gov/tmip/papers/history/utp/toc.htm or do a search under author’s name. Skim Introduction, Concluding Remarks and Sections 13 (Strategic Planning) and 14 (Sustainable Development) U.S.D.O.T. (pamphlets on the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (TEA-21) Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) “TEA-21—More Than a Free Refill,” Website: http://www.transact.org/Progress/june98/index.htm D. Gordon, “Alternative Transportation Fuels,” Steering a New Course: Transportation, Energy and Environment, Island Press, 1993 Benfield, F Kaid, Matthew D. Raimi, and Donald D. T. Chen. 1999 “Paving Paradise: Sprawl and the Environment,” Chapter 2 in Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl is Undermining America’s Environment, Economy, and Social Fabric. Washington, DC: Natural Resources Defense Council, pp. 29-87. Recommended Reading: U.S.D.O.T. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Transportation in the United States. Washington: USDOT, 1997. http://www.bts.gov/ntl/DOCS/tranrev.html Wachs, Martin. “The Political Context of Transportation Policy,” Chapter 11 in The Geography of Urban Transportation, edited by Susan Hanson, pp. 269- 286. |
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February 13 |
Transportation Policies and Practices in the United StatesCharacteristics of Travel and Techniques for Estimating Travel Demand Guest Speaker: Whit Blanton, Renaissance Planning Group (not confirmed) Bajpai, Jitendra. Forecasting the Basic Inputs to Transportation Planning at the Zonal Level. National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 328, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, June 1990
U. S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and Urban Mass Transportation Administration. 1977. An Introduction to Urban Transportation Demand Forecasting. Chapters 1-3 http://www.bts.gov/ntl/DOCS/UT.html |
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February 20 |
Transportation Policies and Practices in the United StatesCharacteristics of Travel and Techniques for Estimating Travel Demand - continued
U. S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and Urban Mass Transportation Administration. 1977. An Introduction to Urban Transportation Demand Forecasting. Chapters 4-6 http://www.bts.gov/ntl/DOCS/UT.html |
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February 27 |
Urban Transportation Policies: United States and Peer CountriesGuest Speaker: Marta Strambi on Curitiba, Brazil (not confirmed) Required Readings: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 4: Urban
Transportation Policies: United States and Peer Contries Pucher,
John. 1995. “Urban Transport in the United States and Europe: A Comparative
Analysis of Public Policies,” Transport Reviews 15,2 (April-June): and 15,3 (June-September):
261-283. *** Literature Review/Background and Outline of Research Paper due at beginning of class. |
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March 6 |
No Class Spring Break |
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March 13 |
Common Misconceptions in Urban
Transportation
Case Study: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Land Use Required: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 4: Common Misconceptions in Urban
Transportation Cervero, Robert and John Landis. 1997. “Twenty Years of
the Bay Area Rapid Transit System: Land Use and Development Impacts,” Transportation
Research A, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 309-333.
Landis, John.
1999. “Middle Age Sprawl: BART
and Urban Development,” Access 14,
pp. 2-15 (see website) Black, Alan.
1993. “The Recent Popularity
of Light Rail Transit in North America,” Journal
of Planning Education and Research, 12(3): 150-159. Recommended: Webber, Melvin,
“The BART Experience -- What Have We Learned?” The
Public Interest Vol. 12, No. 3, pp.79-110 (Fall 1976). Boarnet, Marlon and Randall Crane. “LA Story: A Reality Check for
Transit-Based Housing,” Journal of the
American Planning Association 63: 2, pp. 189-204 (Spring 1997). Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee. “There’s No There There: Or Why Neighborhoods
Don’t Readily Develop Near Light-Rail Transit Stations,” Access 9: 2-6 (Fall 1996). Pickrell, D. “A Desire Named Streetcar: Fantasy and Fact
in Rail Transit Planning,” Journal of
the American Planning Association 58, 2: 158-176. Dittmar, Hank. 1995. “Is Rail Transit
Right For Your Community? Asking the Right Questions; Measuring the Benefits”
http://www.transact.org/Reports/Papers/RAIL.HTM
Moore, James E. II. 1993.
“Commentary on ‘The Recent Popularity of Light Rail Transit in North
America,’” Journal of Planning
Education and Research 13 (1): 50-52. Black, Alan. 1993.
“Author’s Response,” Journal of
Planning Education and Research 13(1): 53-54. Richmond, Jonathan E. D.
1998. “The Mythical Conception
of Rail Transit in Los Angeles,” Journal
of Architectural and Planning Research 15(4): 294-320. |
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March 20 |
Transportation Policies for
Livable Cities
Transportation System Management Required Reading: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 6:
Transportation Policies for Livable Cities Ewing, Reid.
1993. Florida’s Mobility Handbook, Prepared for the Florida Department
of Community Affairs. Recommended Readings: Anthony Downs, Stuck
in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC, Chapter 3: Increasing the Carrying Capacity Kristine M Williams and Margaret A. Marshall. Managing
Corridor Development: A Municipal Handbook, Tampa, FL: Center for Urban Transportation Research,
1996, pp. 5-8. 37-42, 55. Gordon J. Fielding and Daniel B. Klein. 1997.
“Hot Lanes: Introducing Congestion Pricing One Lane at a Time.” Access
11, pp. 11-15. Dahlgren, Joy. 1995. “Are HOV Lanes Really Better?” Access
6, pp. 25-29. |
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March 27 |
Transportation
for a Livable City Modeling Supply
and Demand for Pedestrian Facilities *** Data analysis for research paper due at class time. |
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Friday, March 30 |
Field trip to Orlando, Tampa or Jacksonville |
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April 3 |
Implementing the Solutions: Measures for Achieving
Intermodal Balance Transportation Demand Management Required Reading: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 7:
Implementing the Solutions: Measures for Achieving Intermodal Balance E. Ferguson. “Transportation Demand Management: Planning,
Development, and Implementation,” Journal of the American Planning
Association, Vol. 56, 4: pp. 442-56 (1990). Anthony Downs, Stuck
in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC, Chapter 11: Summary and Conclusions Surface Transportation Policy Project and Environmental
Working Group. 2000. Mean
Streets: Pedestrian Safety Reform of the Nation’s Transportation Law. Executive Summary and Chapter 1:
America’s Dangerous Streets and Chapter 2: The Dangers of Walking Less. http://www.transact.org/Reports/ms2000/default.htm
Recommended Readings: Anthony Downs, Stuck
in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC, Chapter 4: Peak-Hour Road Pricing (and Appendix A) Chapter 5: Demand-Side Remedies That Focus on Behavior Chapter 6: Remedies that Increase Residential Densities
(and Appendix B and C) Chapter 7: Changing the Jobs-Housing Balance Chapter 8: Concentrating Jobs in Large Clusters Chapter 9: Local Growth-Management Policies Chapter 10: The Need for Regional Anticongestion Policies |
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April 10 |
Social Equity Issues in
Transportation
Required Readings: Rosenbloom, S.
“The Transportation Disadvantaged.”
In Public Transportation,
Gray and Hoel, ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1992, pp. 583-615. Dempsey, Paul Stephen.
“The Civil Rights of the Handicapped in Transportation: The Americans
with Disabilities Act and Related Legislation,” Transportation Law Journal, Vol. 19, pp.309-333. Blumenberg, Evelyn and Paul Ong. “Can Welfare Recipients Afford to Work Far from Home?” Access
10: 15-19 (Spring 1997) Gottlieb, Robert and
Andrew Fisher. “Food Access
For the Transit-Dependent,” Access
9: 18-20. Jeskey, Carolyn.
“All they Want is a Ride: Seniors and Peopl with Disabilities Compete
for the Scraps,” Community Transportation Reporter (February/March 1997) http://www.ctaa.org/ct/mayjune96/florida.shtml
Price, Barbara Rasin.
“Florida’s Transportation Disadvantaged Commission: A Model for
Changing Times,” Community
Transportation Reporter (May/June
1996) http://www.ctaa.org/ct/mayjune96/florida.shtml
Congress, Nita.
“ADA: Guaranteeing Access to Transportation,” Public Roads Online Vol.58, No. 2
(Autumn 1994) Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center http://tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall94/p94au18.htm Recommended Readings: Cameron, Michael.
1997. “Transportation
Efficiency and Equity in Southern California: Are They Compatible?” Chapter 5
in Just Transportation ed. by R.
Bullard and G. S. Johnson, Stony Creek, CT: New Society. Mann, Eric.
1997. “Confronting Transit
Racism in Los Angeles,” Chapter 6 in Just
Transportation ed. by R. Bullard and G. S. Johnson, Stony Creek, CT: New
Society Publishers. |
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April 17 |
Cities and Transportation: What is the Future?Conclusions Required Readings: Vuchic, Vukan.
1999. Transportation for Livable
Cities. New Brunswick, NY: Center for Urban Policy Research. Chapter 8: Cities and Transportation: What is the Future? |
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April 24 |
Presentations of Projects |
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