Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Highway Statistics
Author: State-local Highway Consultation and Cooperation
Author: Michael A. PaganoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Highway Finance
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Highway Statistics 2006
Author: US Deparment of TransportationPublisher: Transportation Department, Federal Highway Admin
ISBN: 9780160805127
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
State Aid to Local Government
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Highway Finance Manual
Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Devolution of Federal Aid Highway Programs
Author: Michael A. PaganoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Selected Bibliography on Highway Finance
Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Rethinking America's Highways
Author: Robert W. PoolePublisher: 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.