Express Highways in the United States
Title | Express Highways in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Public Roads Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Express highways |
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Express Highways in the United States
Title | Express Highways in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Public Roads Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1945 |
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Highways in the United States
Title | Highways in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Public Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Roads |
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The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Title | The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Public Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Express highways |
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Contains state maps detailing the express highways in each state.
Rethinking America's Highways
Title | Rethinking America's Highways PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Poole |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2018-08-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 022655760X |
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
Title | Interstate PDF eBook |
Author | Mark H. Rose |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN |
Interstate
Title | Interstate PDF eBook |
Author | Mark H. Rose |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780870496714 |
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