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Jan 1973
Modal Choice and Public Policy in Transportation
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The solutions of today's and tomorrow's urban transportation problems are rooted in the political, economic, and social reality of each metropolitan area. The challenge is neither to build freeways, or rail rapid transit, or both, nor to build busways, or pedestrianways, or both. It is to provide the proper mix of highway and public transport services to improve arterial streets, to modernize traffic controls, to keep the existing bus system operating at reasonable fares, and to expand this system to meet changing social and community needs.
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Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 99 • Issue 1 • January 1973
Pages: 65 - 75
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© 1973 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1973
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Buses
- Business management
- Ecosystems
- Environmental engineering
- Highway and road management
- Highway transportation
- Highways and roads
- Infrastructure
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public policy
- Public transportation
- Rail transportation
- Social factors
- Transportation engineering
- Urban and regional development
- Urban areas
- Vegetation
- Vehicles
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Herbert S. Levinson, F.ASCE
Sr. Vice Pres., Wilbur Smith and Assoc., New Haven, Conn.
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