TY - BOOK ID - 134527514 TI - Metropolitan transportation planning : new advances, approaches, and best practices AU - Ewing, Reid AU - Bartholomew, Keith PY - 2018 SN - 1351211323 135121134X 1351211331 PB - Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, DB - UniCat KW - Urban transportation policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134527514 AB - Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality, and watershed and green-spaces. It is fundamental to efforts to promote social justice and equity. Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning shows how the most innovative metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in the United States are addressing these issues using their mandates to improve transportation networks while pursuing emerging sustainability goals at the same time.As both a policy analysis and a practical how-to guide, this book presents cutting-edge original research on the role accessibility plays - and should play - in transportation planning, tracks how existing plans have sought to balance competing priorities using scenario planning and other strategies, assesses the results of various efforts to reduce automobile dependence in cities, and explains how to make planning documents more powerful and effective. In highlighting the most innovative practices implemented by MPOs, regional planning councils, city and county planning departments and state departments of transportation, this book aims to influence other planning organizations, as well as influence federal and state policy discussions and legislation. ER -