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SECRETARY'S ADDRESSON PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND OPERATIONS
Pages 68-72

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From page 68...
... We spent quite some time discussing the role of the university and its strengths in ideation, synthesis of ideas, codification of ideas, and the training of students. One thing that came out of this discussion was that we feel that the university program has not placed significant emphasis on the role of the university in the training of the students and on the fact that every university contract project is going to contain much student input.
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From page 69...
... Third, as we fill in the gaps and consider investment, both in capital and operating assistance, we must give high priority to the equity question: Who is benefiting and who is bearing the burden of our investments? In the longer term -- issues with longer term payoffs -- Professor Wachs identified a fourth area, the need for new approaches to comprehensive planning.
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From page 70...
... Under category 1 we talked about developing methods to evaluate total cost, capital, and operating components of transportation systems and total transportation systems. We believe that elected officials just do not feel they are getting adequate cost information before being asked to make major funding decisions.
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From page 71...
... There is need to explore and understand ways to integrate transportation into urban development, not restricting it to new urban development, but recognizing the vital role transportation has to play in the restoration and renewal of entire downtowns, center city neighborhoods, from macro-scale to really micro-scale issues. There should be further work to explore the effects of funding patterns and institutional arrangements on choice of transportation options.
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From page 72...
... In the late 1960's the highway planners began calling themselves transportation planners and more lately the transportation planners are calling themselves transportation system managers. Yet, they are still working from the basic engineering skills that the soils engineer brought to bear on his problem of getting the farmer out of the mud.
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