Taking the High Road A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform

Foreword by Edward G. Rendell

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: A METROPOLITAN AGENDA FOR TRANSPORTATION

1. Transportation Reform for the Twenty-First Century

2. Getting Transportation Right for Metropolitan America

PART TWO: FINANCING THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

3. Fueling Transportation Finance: A Primer on the Gas Tax

4. Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance

5. Slanted Pavement: How Ohio's Highway Spending Shortchanges Cities and Suburbs

PART THREE: GETTING THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORTATION RIGHT

6. Increasing Funding and Accountability for Metropolitan Transportation Decisions

7. The Need for Regional Anticongestion Policies

PART FOUR: MEETING SOCIETAL NEEDS IN TRANSPORTATION

8. The Long Journey to Work: A Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families

9. The Mobility Needs of Older Americans: Implications for Transportation Reauthorization

PART FIVE: OTHER IMPORTANT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION ISSUES

10. Highways and Transit: Leveling the Playing Field in Federal Transportation Policy

11. Protecting America's Highways and Transit Systems against Terrorism

Contributors

Index