Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

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Focusing on infrastructure resilience, this fifth edition addresses the challenges posed by storms, human activity, and population growth. It explores emerging technologies like vehicle-to-vehicle communications and driverless cars that promise to transform urban transportation. The book also examines the health impacts of transportation and how these factors influence planning and policy. Tracing the evolution of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past fifty years, it highlights key legislation, including the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, and discusses the complexities of modern urban transportation planning.