ABSTRACT

The premise of Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st Century is that the twin developments of economic globalization and technological innovation will fundamentally change transportation demand forever. As modern information networks allow knowledge-based industries to locate and produce anything, anywhere, they will impose new demands on our dysfunctional, modally fragmented, underfinanced transportation systems to become more integrated, more efficient, and more responsive to the needs of global commerce. For the United States, nowhere is the need to “get our transportation act together” greater than in our growing metropolitan areas. All this is true.