Best practices in metropolitan transportation planning

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.

This book shows how the most innovative 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 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.