New Approach to Transportation Planning for the 21st Century

Abstract

The complex large-scale integrated open systems (CLIOS) process is an overarching mechanism for considering systems, especially those exhibiting nested complexity, in which both the physical and the institutional aspects are complex. A special case of the CLIOS process is regional strategic transportation planning. New technologies, such as intelligent transportation systems, allow consideration of the planning, management, operations, and maintenance of transportation systems at the regional scale. Although the technological issues in advancing to this scale have proved tractable, the institutional issues concerned with deploying these systems across political jurisdictions with different measures of performance and different cultural perspectives has proved quite difficult. This paper explores processes for studying these institutional questions and integrating a number of concepts into the process: technological change, sustainability, real options, supply chain management, the various transport modes, and social, political, and economic factors. The paper serves as a case study of tailoring the CLIOS process into a process specifically designed to systematically address particular issues, in this case, regional strategic transportation planning.

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Sussman

ITS Deployment and the Competitive Region. In Perspectives on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Springer, New York, 2005.

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. A Summary. U.S. Department of Transportation. 1998. www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/sumcov.htm. Accessed July 2004.

Sussman

Introduction to Transportation Systems. Artech House, Boston, 2000.

Sussman

J. M.

, and Conklin

. Regional Strategies for the Sustainable Intermodal Transportation Enterprise: Five Years of Research. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1747, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2001, pp. 53–59.

The Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues—A Briefing Notebook for Transportation Decisionmakers, Officials and Staff. FHWA, U.S. Department of Transportation. 2004. www.planning.dot.gov/documents/BriefingBook/BBook.html. Accessed July 2004.

Dodder

, Sussman

, and McConnell

. The Concept of the “CLIOS Process”: Integrating the Study of Physical and Policy Systems Using Mexico City as an Example. 2004. esd.mit.edu/symposium/pdfs/papers/dodder.pdf.

Suh

Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.

Dori

Object-Process Analysis of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Documentation and Inspection.

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 9, No. 5, 1996, pp. 339–353.

Crawley

, de Weck

, Eppinger

, Magee

, Moses

, Seering

, Schindall

, Wallace

, and Whitney

. The Influence of Architecture in Engineering Systems. MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 2004. esd.mit.edu/symposium/pdfs/monograph/architecture-b.pdf.

10.

Ogden

K. W.

Urban Goods Movement. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1992.

11.

Meyer

, and Miller

. Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-Oriented Approach, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001.

12.

Mostashari

, and Sussman

. Engaging Stakeholders in Engineering Systems Representation and Modeling. Presented at MIT Engineering Systems Symposium, Cambridge, Mass., 2004.

13.

Porter

Regions and the New Economics of Competition. In Global City-Regions ( Scott

A. J.

. ed.), Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.

14.

Schwartz

The Art of the Long View. Doubleday/Currency, New York, 1991.

15.

Sterman

Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000.