Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Highways in the United States of America and Its Possessions
Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
U.S. Department of Transportation News
Author: Rethinking America's Highways
Author: Robert W. PoolePublisher: 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.
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Department of Transportation News
Author: Final Report on the Federal Highway Cost Allocation Study
Author: Divided Highways
Author: Tom LewisPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140267716
Category : Interstate Highway System
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built: the Interstate Highway System. Here is one of the great untold tales of American enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured, paved - and tried to stop - the Interstates. Conceived and spearheaded by Thomas "the Chief" MacDonald, the iron-willed bureaucrat from the muddy farmlands of Iowa who rose to unrivaled power, the highway system was propelled forward through the pathbreaking efforts of brilliant engineers, argued over by politicians of every ideological and moral stripe, reviled by the citizens whose lives it devastated, and lauded as the greatest public works project in U.S. history.
The Code of the Laws of the United States of America of a General and Permanent Character in Force December 7, 1925
Author: United StatesHearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1984
Book Description
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 2022
Book Description