Transportation System Planning in the Face of Structural Change
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ITE JOURNAL / JUNE 2003 ACTIVE COMMUNITIES RESULT from the interaction of many environmental, cultural, political and sociological factors. The design of a transportation system is but one of them. A balanced transportation system—with appropriate levels of investment in bicycle and pedestrian facilities and transit in addition to automobile-oriented facilities—is an indispensable requirement and a catalyst for active communities. While transitand pedestrian-supportive land-use changes are hard to attain, especially given local control issues and pressure on local jurisdictions to increase the tax base, steps can be taken to increase the quality of transportation projects and services provided to individual communities.
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