Transportation planning in many American communities is undergoing a paradigm shift in the way problems are defined and solutions evaluated. This paradigm has many human-created rules, policies, computer software programs, and standards that tell transportation professionals what to do when, based on assumptions at the time they were created. It is reinforced by decades-old transportation funding programs, although funding programs for maintenance of the infrastructure built under this paradigm are significantly declining. In fact, to compensate for declining funds from the US federal and state transportation agencies, many regional Metropolitan Planning Organization have received voter approval to create self-help tax programs. Transportation professionals must foster a certain level of healthy anxiety to avoid becoming the status quo developing a greater ability to accept new challenges and uncertainties without being satisfied with solving today's challenges with yesterday's solutions.


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    Title :

    Creating Great Communities through Transportation: A Perspective on Becoming More Relevant to the Public


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    ITE journal ; 85 , 2


    Publication date :

    2015



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.00 Technik der Verkehrsmittel, Verkehrswesen: Allgemeines
    Local classification TIB:    770/7010



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