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Geography 3115 Urban Transportation Problems
Click on the date to download class notes. Click
on article titles for readings.
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Review of Syllabus
Introduction to Urban Transportation Problems |
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The State of Urban Transportation
1. “Traffic-Why
It’s Getting Worse and What the Government Can Do About
It”, Downs, 8pp.
2. “The Context of Urban Travel”, Hansen, Chapter
1, 26pp.
3. “2005
Urban Mobility Report (Summary)”, Schrank &
Lomax, 26pp. |
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Automobiles in Urban Transportation Systems
1. “Managing the Auto” Hansen, Chapter 14, 22pp.
2. “Driven
to Spend”; Bernstein, Makarewicz & McCarty;
23pp. |
Jan 21 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No Class/No Readings) |
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Highways and Metropolitan Development Patterns
1. “Transportation and Urban Form”, Hansen, Chapter
3, 28pp.
2. “Evidence
and Policy Implications of Highways’ Influence on Metropolitan
Development Patterns”, Boarnet, 37pp. |
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Sprawl and Urban Development
1. “Cost
of Sprawl – 2000”, Transportation Research
Board, pp. 1-41
2. “Measuring
Urban Form-Is Portland Winning the War on Sprawl”,
Song & Knaap, JAPA Spring 2004, 16pp. |
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Parking “
Parking Pricing and Fees”, Transit Cooperative Research
Program Report #95, 62pp. |
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Planning for Movement Within Cities
1. “The Urban Transportation Planning Process”,
Hansen, Chapter 5, 25pp.
2. “Reflections on the Planning Process”, Hansen,
Chapter 6, 21pp
3. “How
(In)Accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?”,
Flyvbjerg, Holm & Buhl, JAPA Spring 2005, 16pp. |
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Evaluating the Impact of Land Use on Transportation
1. “Traffic
Impact Analysis”, APA/PAS Report #387, Greenberg
& Hecimovich, 34pp.
2. “Traffic
Access & Impact Studies for Site Development”,
ITE, 52pp.
3. Pick up Exam #1 |
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Planning for the Pedestrian & Cyclist
1. “Integration
of Bicycles and Transit”, Transit Cooperative Research
Program Synthesis #4, pp.1-34
2. “Mean
Streets 2004”, Ernst, 40pp. |
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Urban Design and Transportation Issues
1. “Designing
Urban Corridors”, APA/PAS Report #418, Bishop, 38pp.
2. “Turning
Highways into Main Streets”; Ewing, King, Raudenbush
& Clemente; JAPA Summer 2005, 14pp.
3. Return Exam #1 |
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Neighborhood Design and Transportation Issues
1. “Neo-Traditional
Neighborhood Design”, Federal Highway Administration,
11pp.
2. “Traffic
Calming”, ITE, 20 pp. |
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Transit Solutions
1. “Public Transportation”, Hansen, Chapter 8,
37pp.
2. “Land Use Impacts of Transportation Improvements-Highways
& Transit”, Hansen, Chapter 9, 36pp. |
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Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit
1. “LRT
& Bus Rapid Transit”, McBrayer, 12pp.
2. “Critiques
of LRT Operations”, Polzin & Page, 67pp. |
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Transit-Oriented Development “
State of Practice for Transit-Oriented Development”,
Arrington, 60pp. |
Mar 3 |
Spring Break (No Class/No Readings) |
Mar 5 |
Spring Break (No Class/No Readings) |
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The Demographics of Transit Ridership “
Counting Transit So That Transit Counts”, American
Public Transportation Association, 64pp. |
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Transit-Friendly Streets “
Transit-Friendly Streets-Design & Traffic Management Strategies
to Support Livable Communities”, Transit Cooperative
Research Program Report #33, p 1-49. |
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Managing Congestion
1. “Traffic
Congestion & Travel Reliability”, Lomax and
Turner, 27pp.
2. “Congestion
Reduction Strategies”, Victoria Transport Policy
Institute, 14pp.
3. “Rethinking
Traffic Congestion”, Taylor, 9pp.
4. Pick up Exam #2 |
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Smart Growth and Transportation (Part I) “
Smart Growth and Transportation”, Transportation
Research Board, pp. 9-70 |
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Smart Growth and Transportation (Part II) “
Smart Growth and Transportation”, Transportation
Research Board, pp. 71-134
Return Exam #2 |
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Transit and Economic Development (Part I) “
The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities”,
Transit Cooperative Research Program Report #22, 94pp. |
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Transit and Economic Development (Part II) “
How States Fail to Connect Econ. Development with Public Transit”,
Khan & Leroy, 42pp. |
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The Environment and Transportation Issues (Part I)
1. “Transportation and the Environment” Hansen,
Chapter 13, 26pp
2. “Clearing
the Air”, Surface Transportation Policy Project,
68pp |
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The Environment and Transportation Issues (Part II) - No
Class “
Interaction Between Roadways & Wildlife Ecology”,
National Cooperative Highway Research Program Synthesis #305,
86pp. |
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Metropolitan Coordination and Planning
1. “Traffic
Sheds, Rural Highway Capacity & Growth Management”,
Kendig & Tocknell, APA/PAS Report #485, 24pp.
2. “Improving
Metropolitan Decision-Making in Transporation”,
Puentes and Bailey, 20pp.
3. “The
Need for Regional Anti-Congestion Policies”, Downs,
20pp. |
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Goods Movements “
Strategies for Managing Increasing Truck Traffic”,
National Cooperative Highway Research Program Synthesis #314,
42pp. |
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Financing Transportation Solutions
1. “The Geography of Urban Transportation Finance”
Hansen, Chapter 11, 37pp
2. “Fueling
Transportation Finance-A Primer on the Gas Tax”,
Puentes & Prince, 20pp.
3. “Using
GARVEE Bonds to Finance Transportation Projects”,
Puentes & Warren, 24pp. |
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Environmental Justice and Transportation Issues
1. “Social and Environmental Justice Issues in Urban
Transportation”, Hansen, Chapter 12, 24pp.
2. “Dismantling
Transportation Apartheid-The Quest for Equity”,
Bullard, Johnson and Torres, Chapter 2 in Sprawl City: Race,
Politics & Planning in Atlanta; 30pp.
3. “MPO
Voting Structure & Transit Investment Bias”;
Nelson, Sanchez, Wilson and Farquhar; 15pp. |
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What the Future Holds
1. “The
Future of US Ground Transportation-2000 to 2020”,
Downs, 17pp.
2. Pick up Final Exam |
Apr 28 |
Review Class (No Readings) |
May 5 |
Turn in Final Exam |
Required Readings, Class Notes and Examinations
The Geography of Urban Transportation (3rd Edition), Edited by
Susan Hansen & Genevieve Giuliano.
All readings for this class that are not drawn from the Hanson/Giuliano
text will be available for downloading from the departmental server
via links to the instructor’s webpage. Similarly, PowerPoint
formatted summary notes of lecture subjects will be available
for downloading from the departmental server. You will be held
responsible for all materials used during this course –
including materials covered during classroom lectures and readings
from required sources (regardless of whether they are covered
in lectures). Any and all of this material may be relevant to
questions on the exams. Therefore, even though no attendance record
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all of the materials unless you attend all of the classes and
undertake all of the readings.
There will be 3 take-home, open-book, essay-style exams in this
course. There are usually 3 or 4 questions per exam. At the instructor’s
discretion, there may also be some number of “extra credit”
questions available for those students who wish to improve their
standing in this course. Exam #1 and exam #2 will each count for
30% of your final grade. The final exam will count for 40% of
your final grade.
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