Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.
Sam Staley is the director of urban and land use policy at the Reason Foundation. He is also senior fellow at both the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions. His books include The Road More Traveled: Why the Congestion Crisis Matters More Than You Think, and What We Can Do About It (Rowman & Littlefield 2006) and Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land Use Planning in the 21st Century. Adrian Moore is vice president of research at Reason. He is the coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 ForewordPart 2 Part I. The Congestion ConundrumChapter 3 Chapter 1. It's the Cars, Stupid!Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Congestion's Relentless PursuitPart 5 Part II. Mobility and Global CompetitivenessChapter 6 Chapter 3. The Need for SpeedChapter 7 Chapter 4. The Apple of AutomobilityChapter 8 Chapter 5. A New Approach to Congestion and TransportationPart 9 Part III. Getting from Here to ThereChapter 10 Chapter 6. Eight Steps to Building Road CapacityChapter 11 Chapter 7. The Missing LinkChapter 12 Chapter 8. Taking System Management SeriouslyChapter 13 Chapter 9. Transitioning TransitPart 14 Part IV. Making It WorkChapter 15 Chapter 10. Where's the Beef? Funding Twenty-first Century MobilityChapter 16 Chapter 11. Charting the UnchartedChapter 17 Appendix A. Transportation and Climate ChangeChapter 18 Appendix B. Land Use and Transportation Choice