An Abundance Agenda for Transportation

Abstract

Transportation provides physical links between geographic places and across geographic scales. Mobility allows people to meet their needs by providing physical access to opportunities, goods, and services. An abundance policy for transportation should support broader abundance through access: making it easier for everyone to get to what they need. Allowing people to access their needs means 1) supplying more mobility choices, especially increasing the quality of more affordable and efficient choices, and 2) supporting land use policy and government programs that facilitate access within neighborhoods, multimodal hubs, or over smaller distances.