Citation

Lee RW, Rivasplata CR. Transp. Policy 2001; 8(1): 47-61.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0967-070X(00)00035-4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article reviews major events and trends in metropolitan transportation planning and policy during the 1990s in three divergent Pacific rim jurisdictions: New Zealand, Chile, and California. Major metropolitan areas in each country have seen rising motorization, increasing congestion, and privatization of transportation services. Devolution of transportation planning responsibility has occurred; to a lesser degree, funding responsibility has been devolved from central to regional/local government. New Zealand pushed privatization harder in the 1990s than either Chile or California. While no dominant model of transportation planning has emerged, metropolitan-level planning has become more prominent and autonomous in each country studied.