Metropolitan Partnerships: Transportation Program Governance Responding to Changing Forms in Urbanization.

Changing conditions in the United States have lead to larger, more complex and overlapping metropolitan areas forming along major intermodal corridors. This trend in development pattern in turn has challenged traditional institutional methods for developing and operating transportation systems. Before contemplating new types of governance in response to the changes, it is reasonable to explore how existing institutional approaches attempt to respond to emerging transportation issues involving multiple metropolitan areas.