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May 1974
Reappraising Metropolitan Transportation Needs
Publication: Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 100, Issue 2
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe: (1) the process used to reappraise the transportation needs in Boston, Mass., and the results of that endeavor; (2) the new and revitalized comprehensive, cooperative, and continuing transportation planning process that has been established throughout Massachusetts as a means of bringing the transportation decision-making process closer to the citizens of the Commonwealth; and (3) the relationship of the new transportation planning process to the development of the Action Plan, a recent requirement of the Federal Highway Administration. The experience of the BTPR was utilized in establishing similar open and participatory planning processes throughout the state. This has resulted in a shift in emphasis from a centralized planning effort in Boston, to a locally based planning effort focusing on the 12 regional planning agencies that encompass nearly all the 351 communities in Massachusetts.
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Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 100 • Issue 2 • May 1974
Pages: 353 - 362
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© 1974 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: May 1974
Published online: Feb 5, 2021
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Thomas F. Humphrey
Dir., Bureau of Tra nsportation Planning and Deve lopment, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Works, Boston, Mass.
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