Posted: March 10th, 2008, 8:59pm PDT
What is transportation? For most of us, it's getting ourselves efficiently where we need to go, and for most of us, that means highways. Lots of highways. But perspectives on transportation vary from place to place, and from need to need. Depending on what you're trying to move, transportation can also be about aviation, rail, and public transit. In order to keep large economies moving, all forms of transportation must work together to share the load, especially as funding for highways across the country is drying up. For more on this concept, I spoke with Dr. Joe Giglio, professor of strategic management at the College of Business at Northeastern University in Boston, and author of several books on transportation, including his latest, entitled "Driving Questions."