UP572--Transportation and Land Use
From Politiurgist
[edit] Lecture Notes
- UP572--6 January
- UP572--11 January
- UP572--13 January
- UP572--25 January
- UP572--27 January
- UP572--1 February
- UP572--3 February
- UP572--10 February
- UP572--15 February
- UP572--17 February
- UP572--22 February
- UP572--24 February
- UP572--8 March
- UP572--10 March
- UP572--29 March
- UP572--4 April
- UP572--7 April
- UP572--12 April
- UP572--13 April
- UP572--14 April
[edit] Reading Notes
Numbers indicate chapters. "SSiT" = Still Stuck in Traffic
10 January:
24 Jan:
31 Jan:
7 Feb:
14 Feb:
21 Feb:
7 March:
14 March:
- Hau - Fundamentals of Road Pricing
- Oberholzer-Geea - Pricing Road Use
- Levine - Pricing's Conditional Promise
- Downs - SSiT 10 11
22 March: (none)
28 March:
- Rubin - Myths about US Urban Rail
- Stanger - Rejoinder to Rubin
- Motavelli - All Aboard
- Downs - SSiT 9
4 April:
[edit] Final Paper
Topic (loosely): Pick an argument and a counter-argument on some transportation topic. Find articles representing the opposing points. Discuss.
Possible articles for an Amtrak-related topic:
- Baron, DP. (1990). Distributive Politics and the Persistence of Amtrak. Journal of Politics, August 1990, Vol. 52 Issue 3, pp. 883-913. "The purpose of this study is to investigate a 1979 episode in the politics of Amtrak in which the political equilibrium changed and nearly resulted in a major reduction in the scale of Amtrak's operations. The study includes a characterization of the "politics of Amtrak," an analysis of congressional action pertaining to the restructuring of Amtrak's route system, and an empirical analysis of congressional voting on that restructuring. The empirical analysis provides a test of the constituent connection arising from the distributive consequences of Amtrak service under several legislative alternatives."
- Amtrak: The Political and Social Aspects of Federal Intercity Passenger Rail Policy (Google's html version at: [1]) seems a good summary paper.
