The Drive for Dollars

Brian D. Taylor is a Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA. He studies travel behavior and transportation equity, finance, history, and politics. His recent research examines the role of public finance in shaping transportation systems and travel outcomes, the socio-economic dimensions of travel behavior, and the effects of traffic congestion on regional economies and housing production, and public transit use and finance prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic.Eric A. Morris is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Clemson University, where in addition to transportation history, he studies the links between transportation and geography and activity patterns, happiness, and quality of life. He attended Harvard for his undergraduate work, and after a decade writing for television programs in Los Angeles received an M.A. and a PhD. in urban planning from UCLA. While a doctoral student, he wrote a column on transportation and urbanization for the New York Times' Freakonomics blog.Jeffrey R. Brown is Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University. His interest in transportation dates to his childhood in Southern California where an early fascination with the extensive local freeway system grew into a curiosity about cars, trains, buses, and planes and how their use shaped cities and affected the lives of city residents.

• PrefacePart I Overview and IntroductionChapter 1: Cities, Cars, and FreewaysChapter 2: Urban and Rural Road Planning and Finance Before the AutomobilePart II Planning and Financing Roads for Autos Before FreewaysChapter 3: Planning and Paying for Streets in Cities in the Pre-Freeway Automobile EraChapter 4: Planning and Paying for Highways Between Cities in the Pre-Freeway EraPart III Planning and Finance in the Early Freeway EraChapter 5: Planning Highways in Cities in the Pre-Interstate EraChapter 6: Planning and Financing Highways Between Cities in the Pre-Interstate EraChapter 7: Financing Freeways in the Postwar EraPart IV The Interstate Era and Its Enduring LegacyChapter 8: The Rise of the Interstate Era Chapter 9: The Fall of the Interstate EraChapter 10: Turning Back the Clock: Finance and Planning in the Post-Freeway EraChapter 11: Conclusion: Groping for a Post-Freeway ConsensusReferencesNotesIndex

Without understanding how they were funded and financed, it is difficult to understand the impact of the vast nation's network of roads, streets, and freeways. In The Drive for Dollars, the authors clearly describe how money was the catalyst that brought the grand plans to life, both for good and bad." -Robert Puentes, President and CEO, Eno Center for Transportation