The progressive institutionalization of transportation policy initiated by the creation of the department of transportation, and its implications for the future are examined. This article focuses on several key aspects of the institutionalization of transportation policy: (1) the culmination of forces leasing to the creation of DOT; (2) the strengths and weaknesses inherited from the legislative battle for the new department; (3) the short- term performance of the eight secretarial administrations that have assumed responsibility for transportation policy; (4) the longer- term impact that DOT has had on the performance of motor federal transportation functions and (5) the outlook for restructuring development and survival of DOT as an institution.
Samenvatting