ABSTRACT
Urban sprawl has aggravated the congested transportation systems of most cities. Moving goods, services, and people to and from various locations in the urban maze is at best cumbersome and frequently only a tribute to good luck. Mass transit, a feature common to cities before the widespread use of the automobile, is now a struggling infant in comparison to the dependency upon that individual motorized vehicle. The use of the automobile and superhighway for the transportation of goods and people has been the subject of several studies. Interstate Express Highway Politics 1941–1956 by Mark H. Rose is an excellent study of the creation of the American expressway systems. Urban transportation is a subject area relating to the social, historical, and physical sciences. Research has been conducted in the field by historians, sociologists, economists, civil engineers, and government managers.
