Highways in the United States
Title | Highways in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Public Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Roads |
ISBN |
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.
Public Roads
Title | Public Roads PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Highway research |
ISBN |
Work of the Public Roads Administration
Title | Work of the Public Roads Administration PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Public Roads Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | Highway departments |
ISBN |
Work of the Public Roads Administration
Title | Work of the Public Roads Administration PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Public Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1943 |
Genre | Roads |
ISBN |
The Public Roads Administration and Its Work
Title | The Public Roads Administration and Its Work PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Public Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1932 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Emergency Construction of Public Highways. Hearing.... on S. 1771....April 6, 1937. (75-1).
Title | Emergency Construction of Public Highways. Hearing.... on S. 1771....April 6, 1937. (75-1). PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | |
ISBN |