The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment

by David M. Levinson and William L. Garrison

Book Overview

The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies, be displaced by competitors, or be reorganized and renewed. An array of examples supports the idea that modern policies are built from past experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199862710
• ISBN13: 9780199862719
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"