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Feng Xie () and David Levinson
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Feng Xie: Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Chapter Chapter 17 in Evolving Transportation Networks, 2011, pp 255-258 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract From the 1950s through the 1980s, the US federal government played a significant promotional role in the development of the Interstate system with large-scale capital investments. Now, a well-worn litany of seemingly intractable problems; congestion, environment, energy, land use, funding, and public health lead planners to suggest that there is widespread dissatisfaction with the institutions and political structures that are supposed to manage transportation. Well-understand (at least within the field) solutions such as road pricing remain stuck because either the problem is insufficiently severe or the institutions which are legally charged with the authority to deliver these solutions are insufficiently robust.

Keywords: Transportation System; Transportation Network; Central Authority; Transportation Planning; Marginal Cost Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9804-0_17

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