December 2019 Land Transportation News [Transportation Systems]

Urban Transportation and Land Use

This chapter is an introduction to the economics of the connection between urban transportation and land use. The nature of the transportation system strongly influences the patterns of land use in an urban area. Indeed, the long-run histories of urban areas sometimes are identified with the dominant mode of transportation of the time; the age of rail, the age of the automobile, and so on. Supp...

Coordinating Transportation and Land Use

ITE JOURNAL / JUNE 2006 INTRODUCTION Throughout the United States, awareness of the critical linkages between transportation and land use is growing. State and regional transportation agencies are realizing that local jurisdictions’ land use decisions can help minimize infrastructure investment needs while improving safety, mobility and accessibility for their customers, the traveling public. L...

Transportation Systems

Although transportation systems are pervasive to modern society, people tend to take them for granted until something goes wrong. Airlines are known to fail as economic enterprises, public systems encounter deficits, excessive crashes occur on highways, and spacecraft are sometimes lost. Understanding transportation systems in terms of their technological and economic complexity, and their impo...

Teaching Integrated Land Use–Transportation Planning

How Land-Use-Transportation Models work