Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform

Bruce Katz is vice president, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, and Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. Robert Puentes is a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, USA.

"Taking the High Road provides an excellent primer for understanding the current state of metropolitan transportation planning, how this policy area has taken center stage in metropolitan issues, and reforms that would facilitate more effective metropolitan governance." --Thomas W. Sanchez & James Wolf, Public Administration Review, 1/1/2007 "This very important, readable volume is designed to influence US federal transportation legislation away from building large highways between and around cities, to serving central cities and metropolitan areas with a variety of appropriate transportation modes...Excellent, fact-filled chapters by distinguished experts cover current federal transportation funding programs with their geographic and modal inequities; meeting the unmet mobility needs of older Americans and the working poor; the unfair stringency of transit planning requirements compared to highways; and antiterrorism measures in transportation...Highly recommended" --D. Brand, formerly, Harvard University, CHOICE, 2/1/2006 "Well-argued, databased case for wresting control of federal and state highway tax revenues away from traditionalists who favor rural and suburban counties over cities." -- Future Survey, 12/1/2005 "the book covers a wide array of metropolitan transportation problems. It is well researched, informative, and full of reasonable recommendations for improvement." --Alan Black, Journal of the American Planning Association, 9/1/2006 "The essays that comprise this book are well written and present fact-based and insightful arguments for contributing to efforts to reassess and reshape transportation policies in 21st century America. They make the book fully deserving of inclusion on the reading lists of persons directly involved in the transportation policy-making process as well as on the assigned text lists of college and university courses in the transportation and urban studies field." --Joe B. Hanna, Transportation Journal, 4/1/2007