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994468
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b748838
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| Title & Author
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Taking the high road : : a metropolitan agenda for transportation reform /\ Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes, editors.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, ©2005.
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| Series Statement
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James A. Johnson metro series
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1 online resource (ix, 331 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0815748272
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: 9780815748274
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: 9780815797890
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: 9781280813337
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: 9786610813339
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0815748272
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9780815748274
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Transportation reform for the twenty-first century: an overview / Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes -- Getting transportation right for metropolitan America / Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes, and Scott Bernstein -- Fueling transportation finance: a primer on the gas tax / Robert Puentes and Ryan Prince -- Improving efficiency and equity in transportation finance / Martin Wachs -- Slanted pavement: how Ohio's highway spending shortchanges cities and suburbs / Edward Hill [and others] -- Increasing funding and accountability for metropolitan transportation decisions / Robert Puentes and Linda Bailey -- The need for regional anticongestion policies / Anthony Downs and Robert Puentes -- The long journey to work: a federal transportation policy for working families / Evelyn Blumenberg and Margy Waller -- The mobility needs of older Americans: implications for transportation reauthorization / Sandra Rosenbloom -- Highways and transit: leveling the playing field in federal transportation policy / Edward Biemborn and Robert Puentes -- Protecting America's highways and transit systems against terrorism / Arnold Howitt and Jonathan Makler.
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| Abstract
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"Examines the challenges facing U.S. cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas in light of the national debate on transportation policy--including finance, decisionmaking, access for the elderly and working poor, and congestion--and provides reform options that speak to leaders at the state, metropolitan, and local levels"--Provided by publisher.
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Urban transportation policy-- United States.
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Transports urbains-- Politique gouvernementale-- États-Unis.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Transportation.
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Großstadt
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Reform
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TRANSPORTATION-- Public Transportation.
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Urban transportation policy.
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Verkehrspolitik
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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388.4/0973
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HE308.T35 2005eb
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| Added Entry
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Katz, Bruce.
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Puentes, Robert.
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