CONTENTS FOREWORD vii Edward G. Rendell ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Part One A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation 1.Transportation Reform for the Twenty-First Century: An Overview 3 Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes 2.Getting Transportation Right for Metropolitan America 15 Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes, and Scott Bernstein Part Two Financing the Transportation System 3.Fueling Transportation Finance: A Primer on the Gas Tax 45 Robert Puentes and Ryan Prince 4 Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance 77 Martin Wachs 5Slanted Pavement: How Ohio's Highway Spending Shortchanges Cities and Suburbs 101 Edward Hill, Billie Geyer, Robert Puentes, Kevin O'Brien, Claudette Robey, and John Brennan Part Three Getting the Geography of Transportation Right 6. Increasing Funding and Accountability for Metropolitan Transportation Decisions 139 Robert Puentes and Linda Bailey 7.The Need for Regional Anticongestion Policies 169 Anthony Downs and Robert Puentes Part Four Meeting Societal Needs in Transportation 8.The Long Journey to Work: A Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families 197 Evelyn Blumenberg and Margy Waller 9.The Mobility Needs of Older Americans: Implications for Transportation Reauthorization 227 Sandra Rosenbloom Part Five Other Important Metropolitan Transportation Issues 10.Highways and Transit: Leveling the Playing Field in Federal Transportation Policy 257 Edward Beimborn and Robert Puentes 11. Protecting America's Highways and Transit Systems against Terrorism 287 Arnold Howitt and Jonathan Makler - CONTRIBUTORS 315 INDEX 317