Transportation Planning on Trial: The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting

Garrett, Mark; Wachs, Martín

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“…An example of a professional penalty would be the exclusion from one's professional organization if one violates its code of ethics. An example of a criminal penalty would be punishment as the result of prosecution before a court or similar legal set-up, for instance where deceptive forecasts have led to substantial mismanagement of public funds (Garett and Wachs, 1996).…”

Section: When Planners Are Part Of the Problem Not The Solutionmentioning

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How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?: The Case of Transportation

Flyvbjerg¹,

Holm

Buhl

2005

Journal of the American Planning Association

528

338

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He is founder and director of the university's research program on large-scale transportation infrastructure planning. His latest books are Megaprojects and Risk (Cambridge University Press, 2003; with Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter), Making Social Science Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Rationality and Power (University of Chicago Press, 1998). Mette K. Skamris Holm is a former assistant professor of planning at Aalborg University. She now works as a planner with Aalborg Municipality. Søren L. Buhl is associate professor of mathematics at Aalborg University. He is associate statistician with the university's research program on largescale transportation infrastructure planning.

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Section: When Planners Are Part Of the Problem Not The Solutionmentioning

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How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?: The Case of Transportation

Flyvbjerg¹,

Holm

Buhl

2005

Journal of the American Planning Association

528

338

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“…Heightened public concern over air pollution has also fo cused attention on the role transit can play in reducing auto travel, thereby lowering exhaust emissions (Garrett and Wachs, 1996). Federal clean air and surface transportation legislation have been integrated in recent years to bring about reductions in motor vehicle emissions.…”

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Reconsidering Social Equity in Public Transit

Garrett¹,

Taylor²

2012

Planning Journal

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Over the course of this century, public transit sys tems in the U.S. have lost most of the market share of metropolitan travel to private vehicles. The two principal markets that remain fo r public transit systems are downtown commuters and transit dependents-people who are too young, too old. too poor, or physically unable to drive. Despite the fa ct that transit dependents are the steadiest customers fo r most public transit sys tems. transit policy has tended to fo cus on recapturing lost markets through expanded suburban bus, express bus, and fued rail systems. Such efforts have collectively proven expensive and only marginally effective. At the same time, comparatively less attention and fe wer resources tend to be devoted to improving well-patronized transit service in low income, central-city areas serving a high proportion of transit dependents. This paper explores this issue through an examination of both the evolving demographics of public transit ridership, and the reasons for shifts in transit policies toward attracting automobile users onto buses and trains. We conclude that the growing dissonance between the quality of service provided to inner-city residents who depend on local buses and the level of public resources being spent to attract new transit riders is both economically inefficient and socially inequitable. In light of this. we propose that transportation planners concerned with social justice (and economic efficiency) should re-examine current public transit policies and plans.

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“…Using the fi gure, the search for sustainable transport can be reformulated as a search for solutions that address all three trade-off s simultaneously so as to avoid the three "faces" The publication of the Brundtland report and the ensuing discussions have resulted in a new wave of policies and plans to reduce the environmental impacts of the transport sector. In the U.S., both the Intermodal Surface Transportation Effi ciency Act (ISTEA) and the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act are, at least in part, an outcome of the renewed environmental awareness generated by the sustainability debate (Garrett and Wachs 1996). The environmental provisions in more recent U.S. transport legislation, such as TEA-21 (Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century) and SAFETEA-LU (Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi cient Transportation Efficiency Act: A Legacy for Users), suggest that the environmental dimension of sustainable development has become well institutionalized.…”

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Basing Transport Planning on Principles of Social Justice

Martens¹

2011

Planning Journal

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Transport modeling and cost-benefi t analysis are two key tools used in transport planning. Both tools have been adapted substantially to cope with the challenges posed by the goal of sustainable development. However, the changes have primarily focused on the negative environmental impacts of the transport sector. Hardly any att ention has been paid to another key dimension of sustainable development: social justice. This paper critically analyzes the two tools from this perspective. It concludes that transport modeling is implicitly based on the distributive principle of demand. Given the importance of mobility in current society, it is suggested to replace current demand-based approaches by transport modeling that is based on the principle of need. Likewise, costbenefi t analysis has a built-in distributive mechanism that structurally favors transport improvements for highly mobile groups. This problem could be solved by replacing travel time savings by so-called accessibility gains as the key benefi t taken into account in cost-benefi t analysis. If the suggested changes were realized, both transport modeling and cost-benefi t analysis could become key tools for promoting sustainable transport.

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Transportation Planning on Trial: The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting

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How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?: The Case of Transportation

How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?: The Case of Transportation

Reconsidering Social Equity in Public Transit

Basing Transport Planning on Principles of Social Justice

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