ISTEA REAUTHORIZATION: WILL IT REFINE, REDEFINE, OR FORGE NEW POLICY LINKAGES. SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS

This report is a summary of proceedings from a major symposium convened by the UCLA Extension Public Policy Program in December 1996 which examined the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). The symposium was the sixth in an annual series being convened to address the connections between transportation, land use, and air quality. Ten sessions are listed in the table of contents of the Proceedings. Topics include Changing Policy Context for Transportation Policy and Planning: Will NEXTEA Represent Another Paradigm Shift, or a Marginal Adjustment?; Major Policy Issues Surrounding Transportation Policy and ISTEA Reauthorization; Proposals for Improving Transportation Finance and Management in California and the Nation; Changing Institutional Roles; Transportation Investments in Goods Movement Intermodalism and Economic Productivity; Air Quality Improvement under ISTEA and NEXTEA; and Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of Transit under ISTEA.