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1Introduction and Overview
2The Role of Government in Managing a Sustainable Transportation System: The Tragedy of the Concrete CommonsHow are common or pooled resources, such as transport infrastructure and the environment, governed in a free market?
3Managed Conflict: Transportation and Environmental PoliticsClass will develop positions and policy justifications for action on Connecticut's building of the Super 7 highway - is growth and community/regional integrity possible? What are the constraints on government action? Is transport-environmental policy innovation possible or is progress a process of 'muddling through'?Policy problem 1 assigned: Building the Super 7 Highway
4Energy and Clean Air Policy: Who to Regulate? Car, Driver or Mandate Technological InnovationWhat are the trade-offs, practical, economic and political feasibility of regulating individual behavior or mandating technological standards? How does government determine who or what to target when implementing a policy solution - and, what difference does it make?
5Taxing for Change: Is Pricing a Policy Alternative or Political SuicideCan a price be placed on the environment? How much is the individual willing to pay?
6Building the Super 7 Highway Class SimulationPolicy problem 1 due

Policy problem 2 assigned: Unocal Corp.'s SCRAP: Crushing Old Cars for Credit Class Simulation
7Transportation at the Eye of the StormInfrastructure investment; highways, VMT and congestion; transit ridership; bicycle and walking. How does the policy process balance and integrate energy, vehicle and infrastructure to achieve a 'sustainable' outcome?
8Public Participation and Entrepreneurship: Policy Innovation in Managing Transportation and the EnvironmentHow does policy change occur - Interest group mobilization or entrepreneurship? Contrasting experiences of Boston and Curitiba, BrazilPolicy problem 2 due: Unocal Corp.'s SCRAP: Crushing Old Cars for Credit Class Simulation

Policy problem 3 assigned: CAFE Standards, ZEV; ULEV and Hydrogen Cars
9Noise, NIMBY and NOPE: Airport Expansion and its AlternativesKSG Case Study, Regulating Airport Noise
10Environmental Justice: The Equitable Distribution of Transportation Costs and BenefitsHow does transportation policymaking affect the distribution of environmental costs across race, class and communities - and can such costs be equitably distributed?Policy problem 3 due: CAFE Standards, ZEV; ULEV and Hydrogen Cars

Final paper assigned: Logan Runway Expansion
11Discuss Paper 3: CAFE, ZEV and Hydrogen CarsClass will discuss the appropriate role and responsibility of industry in environmental protection. Can private markets introduce innovations to address environmental costs and fairly distribute them between firms, groups and individuals?
12Global Climate Change and Global Equity Class SimulationHow do nations craft a global policy regime that balances transportation-related growth with the threat of climate change - while remaining responsive to the equity issues that separate developed and developing economies?
13Sustainable Transportation in the 21st CenturyWhat might the range of technically and politically viable mobility strategies include in a world with environmental limits?Final paper due: Logan Runway Expansion

 








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