This textbook, facing the realities of contemporary transportation planning, takes into account financial austerity, natural resource limitations, changing demographics of urban populations, inflation, changing functions of cities, new emphasis on rehabilitation and maintenance of existing infrastructure, new transport options, and advances in technology. The basic premise is that effective urban transportation planning must be related to the types of decisions that will be made. There are four major parts. Chapters 1 and 2 describe in detail the major characteristics of urban travel and transportation. Chapters 3 and 4 present an overview of decision-making in the urban transportation environment and discuss the first step of the proposed transportation planning process--data management and diagnosis. Chapters 5 through 9 examine the analysis techniques that can be used in transportation planning. Chapter 10 focuses on the implementation of urban transportation planning, examining the process of project programming, with special emphasis given to its political nature.
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