Urban Decision Making for Transportation Investments: Portland's Light Rail Transit System

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Urban Decision Making for Transportation Investments: Portland's Light Rail Transit System

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Urban Decision Making for Transportation Investments: Portland's Light Rail Transit System : A Technology Sharing Reprint
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Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon ; Portland State University ; United States. Urban Mass Transit Administration.
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DOT-I-85-03
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21949/1527449
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Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States;Portland (Oregon)
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
Abstract:

Investment decisions for large transportation projects are complex, multifaceted phenomena. Generally requiring many years to bring to fruition, such decisions are often reduced at crucial junctures to raw political deals or technical data analysis on limited items. Throughout the range of alternatives considered, analyses completed and policy making sessions which contribute to such investments, the imagery of a rational, sequential and holistic decision making process and substance dominates. Recent debate concerning both the desirability of certain transit investments and the extent to which inappropriate intrusion into the decision making province of state and local government have occurred have highlighted at least some of the less rational and sequential aspects of transportation investments. This study seeks not to unravel the most appropriate federal grant process or the best structure for state and local investment decisions. Rather, it seeks to accomplish the following:
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[PDF - 8.34 MB]
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FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
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urn:sha256:8218712799ed9e5d1ee1b64502a991e78be2b7018b720209cdc461e4f47214fc

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