Table of Contents
Study Materials
Readings
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| week # | TOPICS | readings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview | |
| 2 | The Role of Government in Managing a Sustainable Transportation System: The Tragedy of the Concrete Commons | Gordon, Deborah. "American Transportation in the 20th Century." Steering a New Course: Transportation, Energy, and the Environment. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 5-18. ISBN: 1559631341. Hardin, G. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science, December 1968, pp. 1243-1258. |
| 3 | Managed Conflict: Transportation and Environmental Politics | Weiner, E. "History of Urban Transportation Planning." Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview Revised and Expanded Edition. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1992, pp. 46-74. ISBN: 0275963292. Kraft, M., and N. Vig, eds. "Environmental Policy from 1970s to the 1990s." Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005, pp. 1-30. ISBN: 9781933116013. Paehlke, R. 1997. "Environmental Values and Public Policy." In Kraft, M., and N. Vig, eds. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005, pp. 75-92. ISBN: 9781933116013. |
| 4 | Energy and Clean Air Policy: Who to Regulate? Car, Driver or Mandate Technological Innovation | Nivola, P., and R. Crandall. "The Policy Problem", "The CAFE Conundrum". The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995. ISBN: 0815760914. Gordon, Deborah. "Ultra-Fuel-Efficient Vehicles." Steering a New Course: Transportation, Energy, and the Environment. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 115-126. ISBN: 1559631341. Howitt, A., and A. Altshuler. "The Politics of Controlling Auto Air Pollution." Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1993, pp. 223-256. ISBN: 0815703554. |
| 5 | Taxing for Change: Is Pricing a Policy Alternative or Political Suicide | Nivola, P., and R. Crandall. "The Fuel Tax Option", "What Other Countries Do", and "The American Experience". The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995. ISBN: 0815760914. Gomez-Ibanez, J. A. "Pricing." In Transportation Quarterly (July 1992): 99-135. |
| 6 | Building the Super 7 Highway Class Simulation | |
| 7 | Transportation at the Eye of the Storm | |
| 8 | Public Participation and Entrepreneurship: Policy Innovation in Managing Transportation and the Environment | |
| 9 | Noise, NIMBY and NOPE: Airport Expansion and its Alternatives | Freudenburg, Nicolas, and Carol Steinsapir. "Not in Our Backyards: The Grassroots Environmental Movement." In American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990. Edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1992, pp. 27-37. ISBN: 0844817309. Dempsey, P., A. Goetz, and J. Szyliowicz. "Three Hubs to One: The Folly of Forecasting in the Dynamic Airline Industry." Denver International Airport: Lessons Learned. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 33-78. ISBN: 0071581847. Kuttner, R. Everything For Sale: The Limits of Markets. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. ISBN: 0394583922. |
| 10 | Environmental Justice: The Equitable Distribution of Transportation Costs and Benefits | Bullard, R. "Environmentalism and Social Justice." pp. 1-20, and "Environmentalism as a Working Model." pp. 113-126. In US Department of Transportation Order on Environmental Justice. |
| 11 | Discuss Paper 3: CAFE, ZEV and Hydrogen Cars | |
| 12 | Global Climate Change and Global Equity Class Simulation | Rosenbaum, W. "Climate Diplomacy: The Emerging Politics of Global Environmentalism." In Environmental Politics and Policy. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998, pp. 334-362. ISBN: 1568026455. Gore, A. Earth in the Balance. New York: Plume Books, 1993, pp. 269-360. ISBN: 0452269350. |
| 13 | Sustainable Transportation in the 21st Century | Nijkamp, P. "Roads to Environmentally Sustainable Transport." Transportation Research, no. 4 (1994): 261-271. Schaefer, A., and D. Victor. "The Past and Future of Global Mobility." In Scientific American. October 1997, pp. 58-61. "Part I: Common Concerns." Our Common Future. The World Commission on Environment and Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 019282080X. |