Author: Suzanne Schneider
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Suzanne Schneider
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Category : Motor fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Author: Robert W. Poole
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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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.

Author: R. Richard Geddes
Publisher: Government Institutes
ISBN: 0844743461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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"In The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in U.S. Transportation Infrastructure, R. Richard Geddes surveys the current state of the American transportation system and finds that, like the roads themselves, the existing policy approach is in desperate need of repair. Drawing on the basic economic principles behind supply, demand, competition, and incentives, Geddes argues that a shift toward increased use of public-private partnerships (PPPs)--contractual agreements between public agencies and private parties that allow private participation in the design, construction, operation, and delivery of transportation facilities--could significantly improve the quality of America's transportation infrastructure. By learning to see themselves as customers and investors--rather than mere users--of roads and highways, Americans should expect to receive a reasonable return on their investment: thorough, effective maintenance of America's transportation infrastructure. The Road to Renewal shows how incorporating increased private participation can halt the deterioration of America's transportation system and become the foundation for a safer, more efficient transportation future."--P. [4] of cover.

Author: David S. Kriger
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309097762
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Leonard Merewitz
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
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Category : Privatization
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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