Engineers are sometimes asked to develop solutions to problems that perhaps should not be solved. Imagine a bridge over the Grand Canyon; while it would be very challenging and even immensely rewarding technically to achieve such a feat, most everyone would agree that it is not a good idea for many reasons. While this example may be extreme, it illustrates the dilemma that we transportation engineers oft en face: we are given a land use plan or development site and asked to essentially, "make it work." The premise of this paper is that we as a profession do not have adequate procedures to analyze whether or not a major land use change is appropriate in the context of the transportation system. This stems from past over-reliance on auto level of service as the only measure of effectiveness. The transportation section did not address transit let alone identify any impacts to transit. The EIR merely stated that there should be a "Transportation Management Plan" to analyze transit service.
How Should Public Transit Be Evaluated for a Regional Attractor?
ITE journal ; 87 , 2
2017
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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