Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Steam Carriages
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Category : Steam-carriages
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Parliamentary Papers
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.

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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Gabriel Roth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351487892
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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The poor health of today's roads--a subject close to the hearts of motorists, taxpayers, and government treasurers around the world--has resulted from faulty incentives that misdirect government decision-makers, according to the contributors to Street Smart. During the 1990s, bad government decision-making resulted in the U.S. Interstate Highway System growing by only one seventh the rate of traffic growth. The poor maintenance of existing roads is another concern. In cities around the world, highly political and wasteful government decision-making has led to excessive traffic congestion that has created long commutes, reduced safety, and caused loss of leisure time.Street Smart examines the privatization of roads in theory and in practice. The authors see at least four possible roles for private companies, beyond the well-known one of working under contract to design, build, or maintain governmentally provided roads. These include testing and licensing vehicles and drivers; management of government-owned facilities; franchising; and outright private ownership. Two chapters describe the history of private roads in the United Kingdom and the United States. Contemporary examples are provided of road pricing, privatizing, and contracting out are evident in environs as diverse as Singapore, Southern California, and Scandinavia, and cities as different as Bergen, Norway, and London, England. Finally, several chapters examine strategies for implementing privatization. The principles governing providing scarce resources in free societies are well known. We apply them to such necessities as energy, food, and water so why not to "road space"? The main obstacle to private, or semi-private, ownership of roads is likely to remain the reluctance of the political class to give up a lucrative source of power and influence.Those who want decisions about road services to be controlled by the interplay of consumers and suppliers in free markets, rat

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1106

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