An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state and federal policiesenacted in the wake of the Great Depression.
In an increasingly globalised world, despite reductions in costs and time, transportation has become even more important as a facilitator of economic and human interaction; this is reflected in technical advances in transportation systems, increasing interest in how transportation interacts with society and the need to provide novel approaches to understanding its impacts.