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PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND OPERATIONS
Pages 40-45

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From page 40...
... I, for one, feel much less able to make pronouncements about the future with the same certainty that my colleagues of earlier decades demonstrated. I find, for example, that proceedings of conferences similar to this one that took place in the 1950's stated with certainty that highest priority should be given to comprehensive land use and transportation planning to provide for the emerging needs of the next two decades.
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From page 41...
... The poor and carless, however, do not usually live in suburban communities and the vast majority do not travel to downtown districts very often. The elderly, especially, do not require access to downtown work centers to the extent that they require access to local and dispersed public services such as health care and recreation.
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From page 42...
... University research could contribute directly to the design of new organizational arrangements for the provision, operation, and financing of expanded multi-modal transportation systems in urban areas, in response to such critical questions. As I read proposals for new transit systems in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and as I look at the results of recent investments in BART in San Francisco, METRO in Washington, D.C., and other systems, I am struck by the lack of balance between considerations related to the financing of the capital investment and the stream of operating costs which will occur in later years.
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From page 43...
... I advocate much greater attention to these issues in federally supported research programs during the coming decade, and I believe universities have an especially important contribution to make to such research. For 30 years, economists have been developing theoretical arguments for congestion tolls, marginal cost pricing, and for cutting peak-hour demand through pricing strategies.
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From page 44...
... This should be a major focus for university research during the coming decade. Although attention for the moment centers upon near-term management and low-capital solutions to our transportation problems, we may soon be returning to an era of long-range planning and, indeed, to a new form of comprehensive planning.
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From page 45...
... set its research priorities principally from the outside, I'd like to offer one personal comment on the style of federal support programs for university research. During the coming decade, I would personally give much lower priority than in past years to the explicit fostering of "multidisciplinary" research by the Office of University Research.
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