The report examines the performance and condition of mass transportation in the United States in relationship to the changing market for urban and suburban transportation. The role urban mass transportation is able to play is determined in large part by the cost and convenience of auto use in congested urban areas. An uncertain energy future and increasing atmospheric pollution will continue to spur interest in transit and related forms of high occupancy mobility to support economic growth. Sharply increasing travel demand in urban and suburban areas and inadequate highway capacity are posing unprecedented challenges to the transportation industry. Simply building more new highways is meeting severe cost constraints, as well as public resistance in some rapidly growing urban and suburban areas. New approaches are needed. In order to finance and create new transportation capacity on terms acceptable to the public--as travelers and as urban area residents--a much larger role for user-fee based financing of transportation infrastructure is necessary, combined with a shift in transportation focus from the movement of vehicles to the movement of people and goods.


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