Highway Statistics
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Page : 227 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Motor fuels
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Page : 227 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Motor fuels
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Digital images
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Author : Ronald C. Fisher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000713555
State and Local Public Finance provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of state and local government public finance practices and issues, using the basic tools of economics. This fifth edition maintains its focus on key local services such as education, health care, and transportation and brings in new coverage of land use and housing, applications from behavioral economics, and more international comparisons. This textbook provides an examination and analysis of public finance practices and problems in a federal fiscal system, focusing on the fiscal behavior and policies of state and local governments. Modern economic theory is applied to examine the way key institutions are used to produce and finance services and to provide evaluation of alternative policies. This stalwart text will continue to be invaluable reading for those who study public finance, local government finance, urban economics, public policy, and public administration.
Author : Robert W. Poole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : 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.
Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Oregon
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 9781422308639
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Progress
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Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Finance, Public
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Progress
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Finance, Public
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2006-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309100887
All phases of road developmentâ€"from construction and use by vehicles to maintenanceâ€"affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past two decades, the Federal Highway Administration and state transportation agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of the effects of transportation on the natural environment. This report provides guidance on ways to reconcile the different goals of road development and environmental conservation. It identifies the ecological effects of roads that can be evaluated in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of roads and offers several recommendations to help better understand and manage ecological impacts of paved roads.
Author : David M. Levinson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
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Argues the case for road tolls becoming the preferred means of financing roads.