Background
Garrison, William Louis was born on April 20, 1924 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
(The Transportation Experience explores the historical evo...)
The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies, be displaced by competitors, or be reorganized and renewed. An array of examples supports the idea that modern policies are built from past experiences. William Garrison and David Levinson assert that the planning (and control) of nonlinear, unstable processes is today's central transportation problem, and that this is universal and true of all modes. Modes are similar, in that they all have a triad structure of network, vehicles, and operations; but this framework counters conventional wisdom. Most think of each mode as having a unique history and status, and each is regarded as the private playground of experts and agencies holding unique knowledge, operating in isolated silos. However, this book argues that while modes have an appearance of uniqueness, the same patterns repeat: systems policies, structures, and behaviors are a generic design on varying modal cloth. In the end, the illusion of uniqueness proves to be myopic. While it is true that knowledge has accumulated from past experiences, the heavy hand of these experiences places boundaries on current knowledge; especially on the ways professionals define problems and think about processes. The Transportation Experience provides perspective for the collections of models and techniques that are the essence of transportation science, and also expands the boundaries of current knowledge of the field.
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While much of the transportation systems in Europe and the United States are mature (if not senescent), the rest of the world is still planning, developing, and deploying new systems. The accomplishments and mistakes of places like the United Kingdom and the United States, then, can teach us lessons that may be applied to places where transportation remains nascent or adolescent. The Transportation Experience seeks to understand the genesis of transportation policy in America and the UK, along with the roles that this policy plays as systems are innovated, deployed, and reach maturity, and how policies might be improved.
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Garrison, William Louis was born on April 20, 1924 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Bachelor of Science, Peabody College, 1946. Master of Science, Peabody College, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1950.
From assistant professor to professor department geography, U. Washington, Seattle, 1950-1960;
professor department geography, сivil engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1960-1967;
director transportation center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1965-1967;
director center for urban studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1967-1969;
Weidlein Professor Environmental Engineering, University Pittsburgh, 1969-1973;
director Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1973-1981;
professor сivil engineering, University of California, Berkeley, since 1981. Consultant United States Bureau Public Rds., Washington, 1960-1968. Board of Governors Regional Science Research Institute, Philadelphia, since 1964.
Advising committee on economics National Science Foundation, Washington, 1958-1963. Panel on values of social science research National Science Board, Washington, 1963-1964.
(While much of the transportation systems in Europe and th...)
(While much of the transportation systems in Europe and th...)
(The Transportation Experience explores the historical evo...)
Served to captain United States Air Force, 1943-1946. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation Research Board (chairman 1972-1973, Roy C. Crum award 1973), Regional Science Association (president 1960), Association American Geographers (Outstanding Research award 1958).
Son of Sidney Clarence and Sara (Elisabeth) McMurry. Son of Marcia Fordyce Stanley, August 31, 1938. Children: Sara, Ann, Helen, Deborah, James, Jane, John.