Author: GEORGE SHOREY PETERSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT AS AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
Author: GEORGE SHOREY PETERSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Economics of Highway Transport
Author: Roy Dikeman ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Modernizing the Nation's Highways
Author: Committee for Economic DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Roxie cannot get along with her mother, whose slow recovery from a stroke has made home life difficult, and envies her best friend until a crisis of conscience threatens to change that relationship forever.
Social and Economic Effects of Highways
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration. Socio-Economic Studies DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
America's Challenge for Highway Transportation in the 21st Century
Author: United States. Federal Highway AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted an assessment of broad issues and trends that will shape the future of highway transportation in the United States. This report draws on the findings of 19 working papers prepared during 1987 and 1988, and presents options for meeting the most critical of the Nation's future needs. The report contains an Executive Summary, giving an overview of the report, and seven chapters. Chapter I examines the importance of highway transportation in meeting the Nation's economic and societal needs, discusses national objectives for the highway program and the Federal role in achieving those objectives, and describes past and present governmental roles and responsibilities in the construction and administration of highways. Chapters II and III examine demographic, economic, energy, and technological trends that will affect the future demand for highway transportation. Chapter IV analyzes factors influencing future passenger and freight travel demand, and Chapter V relates the travel demand factors described in earlier chapters to future capital investment requirements for highways. Chapter VI describes program alternatives for meeting future highway requirements and looks at regulatory and other nonconstruction requirements that relate to the operation of highways and the administration of the Federal-aid highway program. Chapter VII examines trends in highway finance and discusses future highway revenue requirements.
Economic Problems Emerging as a Result of Interchange Patterns on the Interstate Highway System in Virginia
Author: Charles W. CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Highways to Success or Byways to Waste
Author: Rubaba AliPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 146480656X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation remain a cornerstone of the development agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa spends roughly $6.8 billion per year on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and social services combined. Despite the development focus on transportation, methodologies for evaluating which road projects to fund are often dis-jointed and unreliable. This report hopes to improve upon the current approaches by establishing a new methodology for prioritization which can be applied to a diverse set of scenarios, regions, and projects. This book demonstrates how modern econometrics and geospatial techniques can be combined to analyze the latest available geo-referenced datasets at the smallest possible scale to answer some of the most important questions in development. Uniquely this report attempts to shed light on some of the most profound puzzles in determining the impacts of roads and where to locate these. Does road infrastructure unleash a virtuous growth cycle? Is it advisable to improve roads in conflict prone zones? What is the effect of improving market access on farming practices? And what are the impacts of roads on forests and biodiversity? It is envisioned that the approach used in this book can be a reference guide to researchers from across the spectrum of international development, who are seeking new tools and insights into the many issues (technical and non-technical) of this important field.
Highway Infrastructure and the Economy
Author: Howard J ShatzPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833052268
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
To inform debate on a new transportation bill being considered, the authors review the literature on the economic outcomes of highway infrastructure spending, which constitutes the largest share of federal spending on transportation infrastructure. They highlight the connections between highway spending and the economy and then analyze the literature to trace the effects of highway infrastructure on productivity, output, and employment.
Research on the Relationship Between Economic Development and Transportation Investment
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research ProgramPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309063104
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Author: Rex M. Whitton