CHANGING CONCEPTS OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Abstract

Urban transportation in America is undergoing a major appraisal and, emerging from these grassroots reappraisals, is a wealth of innovative ideas about the ways local transportation can be more effectively managed, provided, and paid for. These new approaches are divided into seven headings, and reviewed: (1) Developer involvement in transportation improvements; (2) Private-sector sponsorship of transportation services; (3) Transportation management associations; (4) Downtown transportation management; (5) Private operation of transit services; (6) Decentralizing service delivery; and (7) Private financing of transit infrastructure.