Spotlight on transportation planning: FHWA and FTA are partnering to recognize innovative practices at the State, local, and tribal levels.(Federal Highway Administration)(Federal Transit Administration)

From: Public Roads | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Machek, Elizabeth; McCullough, Jody | Copyright information

The Nation's intermodal transportation system exists to serve the public. Transportation planning therefore needs to include public input and consider land use, the environment, development, safety, and national security. Transportation planners examine past, present, and prospective trends and issues associated with the demand for moving people and goods--all of this at various scales and frames of reference: local, rural, tribal, metropolitan, statewide, national, and internation...

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