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1.253/11.543/ESD.222  Transportation Policy & Environmental Limits

Spring 2004

Instructors: Joseph F Coughlin, Frederick P Salvucci

TA: Ursula Hester

Lecture:  F 2-5 PM  (1-277)        

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This course examines transportation policymaking and its relationship to environmental politics. Students will develop an understanding of the transportation policy process, principal issues, institutions and stakeholders as they are related to balancing transport and environmental policy. The course theme focuses on the tension between traditional transportation policy values of individual mobility, system efficiency and economic growth with those of environmentalism and how policy decisions are made in this uncertain and politicized context.

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