The Changing Face of Transportation

This report presents a historical perspective for policymaking. This report reviews the major transportation milestones of the past quarter century and the social and economic context for those milestones. It aims to present transportation data as a logical foundation for making future policy choices. The report is organized around six thematic areas, including growth, deregulation, and intermodalism; safety; globalization; people, energy, and the environment; technology; and national security. Within each of these areas, this report examines the world in 1975, the changes that have taken place since then, and the implications of those trends for the future.