and its long-term influence on our cities. The traffic-service vision of the engineers emerged victorious through the creation of the interstate highway system, but this victory has carried with it a high price for many American cities.
From Traffic Regulation to Limited Ways: The Effort to Build a Science of Transportation Planning
(forthcoming in the Journal of Planning History).
During the 1920s, millions of Americans embraced the automobile as their primary means of transportation, and traffic quickly congested city streets. Local officials turned to the experts for aid. These men approached the congestion problem as one whose solution might be identified through the application of scientific techniques. This research
