Name: Transportation Planning: Making Transportation Plans—Rationality and Politics
Author: Richard Willson

Course Info

10 video lessons (60 Mins)
Published
2019
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1.

Introduction

2 mins
2.

Evolution of the Transportation Planning Process

7 mins
3.

Rational Comprehensive Planning: The Regional Transportation Plan, Part 1

14 mins
4.

Rational Comprehensive Planning: The Regional Transportation Plan, Part 2

4 mins
5.

Scenario Planning and Anticipatory Governance

4 mins
6.

Moving Transportation Organizations Forward

3 mins
7.

Policy Analysis: Problem Solving

5 mins
8.

Advocacy Planning: Multiple Interests

7 mins
9.

Communicative Approaches: How to Talk

5 mins
10.

Matching the Planning Approach to the Context

4 mins

What You Will Learn

Learn how transportation planning has moved for a modeling metaphor to a policy framework.
Discover the structure of the rational method in planning through the model of the Regional Transportation Plan.
Identify roles of strategic planning in the transportation field.
Learn about how policy analysis techniques can address focused transportation problems.
Understand to role of advocacy planning in transportation Learn about communicative and participatory techniques.
Identify the roles of regulatory structures in shaping transportation planning processes.

Course Description

Transportation plans play a crucial role in analyzing issues, setting priorities, and guiding programming. The traditionally rational, comprehensive approach worked well when the goal was to build highway systems, but the context for transportation planning is now more complex. Transportation plans must be multi-modal, be coordinated with land use planning, include community input, and account for environmental and social impacts. This requires a wider variety of plan-making methods.

This course explains the major forms of planning applicable to transportation, including rational comprehensive planning, strategic planning, policy analysis, incremental planning, advocacy planning, and communicative planning. The course also provides examples of how these methods apply to transportation situations, and how they can be used in combination.

Learn these skills

Economics
Land Use
Law and Policy
Parking
Pedestrian Planning
Plan Making
Public Health
Sustainability
Transportation
Urban Design
Walkability
Zoning Codes

AICP CM

This courses is approved for 1 AICP CM credit.

AIA CES

This is 1 LU.

CNU-A

This course is approved for 1 CNU-A credit.

SACPLAN CPD

This course is approved for 1 SACPLAN CPD point.

Meet Your Instructor

Richard Willson

Richard Willson is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Dr. Willson's research addresses parking policy, climate change planning, land/use transportation relationships, travel demand management, and transit-oriented development.

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