U.S. Transportation Policies

Paper Summary:

The paper considers the historical background of the public transportation network in the US and focuses on the public policies that President Roosevelt and other leaders established. The paper explores the needs of the public transportation policy today and proposes where improvements are needed.

From the Paper:

"The United States is considered to be one of the most modern states in the world. It represents a symbol of democracy, technology, and innovation. At the same time however, it has often been envied by more traditional societies and nations with a longer history for its sense of evolution and the rapid growth of the nation, particularly starting from the end of the American Revolution. However, it must be noted that the status the US enjoys at the moment as the end of a cultural road and the destination place for most of the people in the world is in fact the result of historical development and a constant desire to improve the conditions of its citizens as well as for any inhabitant of the US. These attempts are visible in all walks of life, taking into account the constant desires to improve the legislative framework; in this sense, the Constitution was modified on several occasions precisely to ensure equal rights to the people living in America and to its citizens. On a similar note, there are legislative acts which have tried to ensure similar equal status for people, regardless of their race and color in areas such as health care, education, and even transportation. These have taken the form of public policies which try to improve the quality of life in all its respects."

Sample of Sources Used:

• A bill to establish a National Commission on the Infrastructure of the United States. (2004). Library of Congress. Retrieved 17 February 2008, from http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN02993:@@@L&summ2=m&
• America 2050. (2008) Speaker Pelosi evokes National Plans in State of the Union "pre-brutal". Retrieved 17 February 2008, from http://www.america2050.org/national_transportation_policy/
• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. (n.d.) Recommendations for the Interstate System of the Future. Retrieved 17 February 2008, from http://www.transportation1.org/tif1report/highway_01.html
• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. (n.d.) Transportation invest in America. Retrieved 17 February 2008, from http://freight.transportation.org/doc/FreightRailReport.pdf
• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. (2003) Freight-rail Bottom line report. Retrieved 17 February 2008, from http://freight.transportation.org/doc/FreightRailReport.pdf

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