Description: Rethinking America's Highways : A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure, Hardcover by Poole, Robert W., Jr., ISBN 022655757X, ISBN-13 9780226557571, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 . infrastructure.
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Book Title: Rethinking America's Highways : A 21st-Century Vision for Better
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Rethinking America's Highways : a 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Public Policy / General, Public Finance, Finance / General, Automotive / General, General, Civil / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Transportation, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Author: Robert W. Poole Jr.
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
