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Transportation Policy, the Environment, and Livable Communities

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Examines the economic and political conflict between transportation and the environment. Investigates the role of government regulation, green business and transportation policy as a facilitator of economic development and environmental sustainability. Analyzes a variety of international policy problems, including government-business relations, the role of interest groups, non-governmental organizations, and the public and media in the regulation of the automobile; sustainable development; global warming; politics of risk and siting of transport facilities; environmental justice; equity; as well as transportation and public health in the urban metropolis. Provides students with an opportunity to apply transportation and planning methods to develop policy alternatives in the context of environmental politics. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

Spring 2004 · Transportation Policy and Environmental Limits

Topics

  • Introduction and Overview
  • The Role of Government in Managing a Sustainable Transportation System: The Tragedy of the Concrete Commons
  • Managed Conflict: Transportation and Environmental Politics
  • Energy and Clean Air Policy: Who to Regulate? Car, Driver or Mandate Technological Innovation
  • Taxing for Change: Is Pricing a Policy Alternative or Political Suicide
  • Building the Super 7 Highway Class Simulation
  • Transportation at the Eye of the Storm
  • Public Participation and Entrepreneurship: Policy Innovation in Managing Transportation and the Environment
  • Noise, NIMBY and NOPE: Airport Expansion and its Alternatives
  • Environmental Justice: The Equitable Distribution of Transportation Costs and Benefits
  • Discuss Paper 3: CAFE, ZEV and Hydrogen Cars
  • Global Climate Change and Global Equity Class Simulation
  • Sustainable Transportation in the 21st Century

Readings

  • Gordon, Deborah. “American Transportation in the 20th Century.” Steering a New Course: Transportation, Energy, and the Environment . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 5-18. ISBN: 1559631341.
    Listed reading
  • Hardin, G. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science , December 1968, pp. 1243-1258.
    Listed reading
  • Weiner, E. “History of Urban Transportation Planning.” Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview Revised and Expanded Edition. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1992, pp. 46-74. ISBN: 0275963292.
    Listed reading
  • Kraft, M., and N. Vig, eds. “Environmental Policy from 1970s to the 1990s.” Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century . Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005, pp. 1-30. ISBN: 9781933116013.
    Listed reading
  • Paehlke, R. 1997. “Environmental Values and Public Policy.” In Kraft, M., and N. Vig, eds. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005, pp. 75-92. ISBN: 9781933116013.
    Listed reading
  • Nivola, P., and R. Crandall. “The Policy Problem”, “The CAFE Conundrum”. The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995. ISBN: 0815760914.
    Listed reading
  • Gordon, Deborah. “Ultra-Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.” Steering a New Course: Transportation, Energy, and the Environment . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 115-126. ISBN: 1559631341.
    Listed reading
  • Howitt, A., and A. Altshuler. “The Politics of Controlling Auto Air Pollution.” Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1993, pp. 223-256. ISBN: 0815703554.
    Listed reading
  • Nivola, P., and R. Crandall. “The Fuel Tax Option”, “What Other Countries Do”, and “The American Experience”. The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995. ISBN: 0815760914.
    Listed reading
  • Gomez-Ibanez, J. A. “Pricing.” In Transportation Quarterly (July 1992): 99-135.
    Listed reading
  • Freudenburg, Nicolas, and Carol Steinsapir. “Not in Our Backyards: The Grassroots Environmental Movement.” In American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990 . Edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1992, pp. 27-37. ISBN: 0844817309.
    Listed reading
  • Dempsey, P., A. Goetz, and J. Szyliowicz. “Three Hubs to One: The Folly of Forecasting in the Dynamic Airline Industry.” Denver International Airport: Lessons Learned. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 33-78. ISBN: 0071581847.
    Listed reading
  • Kuttner, R. Everything For Sale: The Limits of Markets. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. ISBN: 0394583922.
    Listed reading
  • week #: 10 · TOPICS: Environmental Justice: The Equitable Distribution of Transportation Costs and Benefits · readings: Bullard, R. “ Environmentalism and Social Justice .” pp. 1-20, and “ Environmentalism as a Working Model .” pp. 113-126. In US Department of Transportation Order on Environmental Justice . ↗
    Reading assignment
  • Rosenbaum, W. “Climate Diplomacy: The Emerging Politics of Global Environmentalism.” In Environmental Politics and Policy . Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998, pp. 334-362. ISBN: 1568026455.
    Listed reading
  • Gore, A. Earth in the Balance . New York: Plume Books, 1993, pp. 269-360. ISBN: 0452269350.
    Listed reading
  • Nijkamp, P. “Roads to Environmentally Sustainable Transport.” Transportation Research, no. 4 (1994): 261-271.
    Listed reading
  • Schaefer, A., and D. Victor. “The Past and Future of Global Mobility.” In Scientific American . October 1997, pp. 58-61.
    Listed reading
  • “Part I: Common Concerns. “ Our Common Future. The World Commission on Environment and Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 019282080X.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 1.253[J] Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) 3-0-9 units

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