Urban Transportation Planning

WEEK: 1: Course Overview and Introduction · READINGS: No readings

Chapter 2: “City-Transportation Relationship” in Vuchic, Vukan R. Transportation for Livable Cities . 1999. ISBN: 9780882851617.

Chapter 1 in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Chapters 1,2 in Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 . Harvard University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9780674842113.

Chapter 2 in Pucher, John, and Christian Lefevre. The Urban Transport Crisis in Europe and North America. Springer, 1996. ISBN: 9780333655511.

Chapter 2 (sections 2.2-2.4) and Chapter 3 (sections 3.0-3.1) in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Most, Doug. The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway. St. Martin’s Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781250061355.

Gakenheimer, Ralph A. Transportation Planning as Response to Controversy: the Boston Case. MIT Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780262070652.

Salvucci, Frederick P. “Some Observations on the Recent 25-year History of the Metropolitan Boston Transportation System, the Legacy of the 1970 Boston Transportation Planning Review: What We Should Expect from ISTEA, and Some New Directions Which May Prove Interesting.” Paper prepared for the Boston Conference on Shaping the Accessible Region. Undated.

Lupo, Alan, Frank Colcord, and Edmund P. Fowler. Rites of Way: The Politics of Transportation in Boston and the U.S. City . Little Brown & Co. 1971. ISBN: 9780316536707.

Taylor, Brian D. “The Geography of Urban Transportation Finance” in Hanson, Susan, and Genevieve Giuliano, eds. The Geography of Urban Transportation. Guilford Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781593850555.

Chapter 9 (section 9.3) in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Powers, Martine. “A Cyclist’s Mecca, with Lessons for Boston.” The Boston Globe. Sept. 22, 2013.

Bain, Robert. Toll Road Traffic and Revenue Forecasts . Self-published, 2009. ISBN: 9780956152718.

Chapter 5 (sections 5.0-5.1, 5.4) and Chapter 7 (7.0-7.2) in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Downs, Anthony. Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion. Brookings Institution Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780815719236.

Gomez-Ibanez, Jose. “The Political Economy of Highway Tolls and Congestion Pricing.” Transportation Quarterly 46: 3, July 1992.

Chapter 8 (sections 8.1-8.4) in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Chapter 3 (pages 26-45, 59-72) in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Krieger, Alex. “The Costs - and Benefits? - of Sprawl.” in Saunders, William S., ed. Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader . Vol. 2. U of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780816647552.

Chapter 1 in Shoup, Donald. The High Cost of Free Parking . APA Planners Press, 2011. ISBN: 9781932364965.

Chapter 3, sections 3.1-3.2 in Block-Schacter, David, Michael Kay, Francesca Napolitan, and Tegin Teich. “Sustainable Transport @ MIT: Final Report.” May 21, 2007.

Chapter 6 (section 6.0-6.2) in Meyer, Michael and Eric Miller. Urban Transportation Planning . McGraw-Hill. 2000. ISBN: 9780072423327.

Banister, David. “Reducing CO2 by 60% in 2030: The Impossible Challenge for Transport?” Presented at the 11th World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, CA, June 2007.