The Penn Jersey Transportation Study: The Launching of a Permanent Regional Planning Process

Abstract

The Penn Jersey Transportation Study was created to prepare a plan and program for transportation improvement in the nine-county Camden-Philadelphia-Trenton metropolitan region. The former Executive Director of this million-dollar-a-year planning program reflects on key policy issues that had to be settled during the first three years, as well as the administrative problems of organizing, stating, financing, directing, and designing research for the complex set of studies. From the outset, it was recognized that the scope of the recommendations had to include not only all forms of intra-regional transportation, but associated land use patterns as well. The PJ program also aimed at creating such governmental organizations as might be necessary to conduct a continuous planning process and transportation improvement program in future years.