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Mass Motorization + Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis

By David W. Jones

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0253351529, 9780253351524, 9780253000316
LCC
HE5623 .J658 2008
Open Library ID
OL10228996M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1629590 bytes)
Pages
288\289
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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