Abstract
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1997 includes seven papers that explores structures of independent metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), transportation tax ballot initiatives, transportation planning in major cities and megacities, and manual traffic allocation for street networks in small towns. This issue of the TRR also examines demand forecasting for rural transit; transportation planning with innovative coordination between states, MPOs, and tribes; and estimating user costs and economic impacts of road construction in federal lands projects. (Author/publisher)