Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Express Highways in the United States
Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Highways in the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Interstate
Author: Mark H. Rose
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Interstate
Author: Mark H. Rose
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496714
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An expansion of the 1979 edition, which covered 1941-56, examining the recent shift of power in the politics of the interstate-and-defense system, from the national to the local level, and from scientific to political elites. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496714
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An expansion of the 1979 edition, which covered 1941-56, examining the recent shift of power in the politics of the interstate-and-defense system, from the national to the local level, and from scientific to political elites. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Highways of History
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
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 American Highway
Author: William Kaszynski
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786408221
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Minnesota-based writer and photographer Kazynski traces the transformation of the US from a network of places connected by rutted wagon trails to a maze of highways connected to other highways. He describes and illustrates road and bridge construction and the new roadside culture that threw up motels, restaurants, gas stations, and scenic perspectives.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786408221
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Minnesota-based writer and photographer Kazynski traces the transformation of the US from a network of places connected by rutted wagon trails to a maze of highways connected to other highways. He describes and illustrates road and bridge construction and the new roadside culture that threw up motels, restaurants, gas stations, and scenic perspectives.
The Status of the Nation's Highways
Author: United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Interregional Highways
Author: United States. National Interregional Highway Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Road to Inequality
Author: Clayton Nall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.