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Rethinking America's Highways
- A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
Engelsk Paperback
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Rethinking America's Highways
- A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
Engelsk Paperback

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Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides 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 that is sure to inform future decisions and policies for U.S. infrastructure.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9780226759302
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022675930X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 jan 2021
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
347mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jan 2021
Forfatter(e):
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