Mass Motorization and Mass Transit

Jones David W.

ISBN 10: 0253221714 / ISBN 13: 9780253221711

Published by Indiana University Press (USA), 2010

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pp. 288 2 Illus., Map.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mass Motorization and Mass Transit
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (USA)
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253221714
• ISBN 13: 9780253221711
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. No other book offers as comprehensive a history of mass transit, mass motorization, highway development, and suburbanization or provides as penetrating an analysis of the historical differences between motorization in the United States and that of other advanced industrial nations.

About the Author

David W. Jones is a historian and policy analyst who has taught at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, where he served as research manager at the Institute for Transportation Studies. Jones has been a staff consultant to regional transportation planning agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area.