The first concentration of the book will be on policy. Planning enters when it is triggered by policy decisions. Moreover, planning experiences may inform policy, though this seems infrequent. Our third focus emerges as much policy aims to aid deployment and to respond to problems encountered as systems grow. Finally, management issues manifest as modes mature. A neat sequence of policy followed by planning, deployment, and operations? The sequence gives a nice but incorrect image of an orderly step-by-step unfolding of processes. It is misleading because things may happen out of sequence and often in parallel—for instance, deployment may begin with policy racing to catch up. In addition, the forces of experience and tradition hold across the board, so to speak.The Transportation Experience explores the genesis of transportation systems; the roles that policy plays as systems are planned, innovated, deployed, and reach maturity; and how policies might be improved. While the territory to traverse is vast, underlying themes that characterize policy development and implementation facilitate our journey. In a sense, policy matters are simple. They just seem complex because policy games are played on diverse stages, with many actors, and with issues that appear under different names. Policy themes have much in common across modes, from time to time, and from situation to situation.
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