[...]... to the debates about urban transportation In the United States there is a geographical organization of political power that affects the forging of policy and the distribution of gains and losses from policy actions There is the many against the few consideration in decision making (and its reverse: the well-organized few against the many) These features of the political scene affect transportation Introduction... begin looking back in part II, where we will tell the railroad story, and in part III we shall look back and around while visiting the other modes Part IV will consider the interaction of transportation and complementary experiences, those that form the inputs to transportation Part V will ask how innovation and other actions aid in creating experiences, and in part VI we ask the reader to engage in speculations... conventional policy model, which has behind it the worldview that we (in a gross oversimplification) attribute to economists, policy analysts, lawyers, and others in the policy arena (figure 2.2) There are two major Figure 2.2 Conventional policy model Policy 17 differences between this conventional policy model and the experiential policy model The experiential policy model says that perceptions, principles, and. .. facilities such as airports and airway navigation facilities or railroads and terminals On the soft side, there are institutions that match these • There are operations involving many kinds of institutions and protocols, as well as hard technologies, such as traffic lights 8 Overview • There is equipment and its production, care, and feeding: locomotives, airplanes, liners, shipping firms, automobile... and is subject to omissions Our aim is for the reader to obtain a sense of the scope and variety of policy activities and an appreciation of the need for the development of systematic, cross-cutting ideas The discussion turns to interpretations of what we have seen We seek to highlight the content of policy debates and policy making The easy conclusion to reach is that policy is issue-responsive, it... why policies (rules) are developed and how to assist in forging policies to improve the functioning of systems The earlier discussion of topics to be emphasized indicated one of the ways The Transportation Experience will seek to manage the vast breadth and strive for depth The insights gained will cut through vastness It will be seen how learning in one situation is applied to another (policy is a result... pragmatic grounds There are of course, interrelations, for policy affects and constrains experiences and the intrinsic characteristics of systems Objectives The Transportation Experience strives for two objectives: 1 It seeks to inform readers of the experiences and logics underlying transportation activities and the ways they are thought about These are collected in models and techniques that are the. .. Commission Institute of Transportation Engineers Intelligent Transportation Systems America (public/private partnership) Maritime Transportation Administration (DOT) National Academy of Engineering Committee on Transportation (NRC) National Aeronautics and Space Agency National Highway Traffic Safety Administration National Research Council National Science Foundation National Transportation Policy. .. HRB) Transportation Security Administration Urban Mass Transportation Administration (DOT) (now FTA) Women’s Transportation Seminar in box 2.2 is rough, and we would not argue its perfection Indeed, each time we use it we think of needed revisions The point of the list is that it helps identify the nature of issues and their origins As we see it, an issue arises when something is wrong Wrong with respect... what? Air service to small communities is seen as a fairness issue, for example; the airlines are not providing services to everyone Policy 19 BOX 2.1 U.S Public Sector Transportation Institutions Many federal, state, and local agencies have transportation responsibilities The Surface Transportation Board and state public utility commissions are the major ones not mentioned in this discussion The United . airports and airway navigation facilities or railroads and terminals. On the soft side, there are institutions that match these. • There are operations involving many kinds of institutions and protocols,. means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garrison, William Louis [date] The. which has been built), and the economic and engineering analysis of intercity transportation and ITS technologies, along with research into traveler and institutional behavior. While over the