Author: Henry Petroski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
Highways of the Future
Rethinking America's Highways
Author: Robert W. Poole
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
The Future of Highways in California
Author: Samuel B. Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Highways of the Future
Author: J. P. Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Highways and the Future Demand and Supply of Metropolitan Transportation
Author: Douglas J. Carroll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Highways of the Future
The Future of Road-making in America
Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Historic Highways of America: The future of road-making in America
Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages :
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Federalaid highways trends, effect of state spending, and options for future program design : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate.
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428935886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428935886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Highways for the Future
Author: Wilbur Smith and Associates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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