Abstract
Abstract A recent federal transportation policy initiative has encouraged metropolitan and local transportation planners to place increased emphasis on near-term, service-oriented transportation problems. This policy, called Transportation System Management (TSM), was designed to affect not only the types of projects to be considered during the planning process, but also the institutional framework established to conduct and guide comprehensive transportation planning. This paper describes the emergence of TSM-type planning from a tradition of large-scale, facility-oriented planning. Characteristics of the TSM program that may significantly affect the process and politics of transportation planning are discussed. The paper concludes by identifying some of the characteristics of TSM program performance and their likely effect on transportation planning in general. These include the greater emphasis on short-range actions and the need to resolve apparent conflicts between efficiency and amenity objectives.
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