"Mass Motorization and Mass Transit" examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of U.S. motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. No other book offers as comprehensive a history of mass transit, mass motorization, highway development, and suburbanization or provides as penetrating an analysis of the historical differences between motorization in the United States and that of other advanced industrial nations.
- ISBN10 0253351529
- ISBN13 9780253351524
- Publish Date 9 June 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English