Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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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
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Express Highways in the United States
Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Highways in the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher:
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Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contains state maps detailing the express highways in each state.
Publisher:
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Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contains state maps detailing the express highways in each state.
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.
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:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
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.
Express Highway Planning in Metropolitan Areas, by Joseph Barnett ... For Presentation at the Highway Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers at Its Annual Meeting to be Held in New York, N.Y., January 18, 1945
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description