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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Government Transportation Financial Statistics 2003
Author: Highway Statistics
Author: Transportation Statistics Annual Report
Author: National Transportation Statistics
Author: State Transportation Statistics
Author: Sustaining the States
Author: Marilyn Marks RubinPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466555416
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
State fiscal decisions have a significant impact on the US economy. Taken together, subnational governments employ more than one out of every eight workers and provide the bulk of all basic governmental services consumed by individuals and businesses. Sustaining the States: The Fiscal Viability of American State Governments will give you a basic understanding of trends in, current status of, and future prospects for the fiscal sustainability of state governments. After reading this book, you should have a great appreciation for the reach and multiple contributions of state governments to individuals and communities across the nation. The book examines the broad range and depth of state revenues, responsibilities, and activities. It begins with an assessment of executive budgeting in the states, then presents the experiences of states with strong executive-driven systems and the various rules and institutions that impact state government budget discipline. The book goes on to examine state revenue sources, debt, pensions, and spending, honing in on vital state functions including education, transportation, health services and public safety. It concludes with an assessment of the challenges that will test the fiscal vibrancy of US state governments going forward: vulnerability to future economic downturns, growing dependence on an increasingly austere federal government, the obsolescence of state tax systems and an ever more coercive system of federalism. Edited by experts, with a hand-picked panel of contributors, the book delineates the resources that states generate and use to conduct the business of government. The chapters outline the very real and significant constraints on the ability of the states to fulfill their responsibilities and introduce several challenges that state governments face and are actively addressing as they strive for fiscal sustainability. These features provide a clear, realistic understanding of state operations and financing in the United States, today. The book should also leave you with a sense of optimism for the capacity of state governments to advance forward.
Transportation in a Climate-constrained World
Author: Andreas SchäferPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262012677
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel.
Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World
Author: Andreas SchaferPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262296896
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel. In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. The introduction of the horseless carriage solved many of these problems but has created others. Today another revolution in transportation seems overdue. Transportation consumes two-thirds of the world's petroleum and has become the largest contributor to global environmental change. Most of this increase in scale can be attributed to the strong desire for personal mobility that comes with economic growth. InTransportation in a Climate-Constrained World, the authors present the first integrated assessment of the factors affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger transportation. They examine such topics as past and future travel demand; the influence of personal and business choices on passenger travel's climate impact; technologies and alternative fuels that may become available to mitigate GHG emissions from passenger transport; and policies that would promote a more sustainable transportation system. And most important, taking into account all of these options are taken together, they consider how to achieve a sustainable transportation system in the next thirty to fifty years.
Survey of Current Business
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Presents current statistical data on economic activity.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description