Dr. Susan Handy, Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California at Davis discusses the transportation system in the U.S. that has been shaped by a core set of ideas embedded in professional practice. These ideas – freedom, speed, mobility, vehicles, capacity, hierarchy, separation, control, and technology – have produced a system in which most people are dependent on driving, with all the negative consequences that entails. Shifting to a system that offers people choices about their daily travel requires a shift in thinking on the part of the transportation profession. That shift is well underway but not yet all the way there.
