Rethinking America's Highways

A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure

Robert W. Poole Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-75930-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Robert W. Poole Jr. is director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation, a public policy think tank, and is the author or editor of five previous books on public policy.

Preface

Chapter 1. Our Troubled Highway System
Chapter 2. How the Private Sector Is Reinventing America’s Freeways
Chapter 3. Where America’s 20th-Century Highway Model Came From
Chapter 4. The Rediscovery of Toll Road Companies Overseas
Chapter 5. Toll Concessions Return to America
Chapter 6. The Benefits of Long-Term P3 Concessions
Chapter 7. Critics and Controversy: Opposition to Tolling and Long-Term Concessions
Chapter 8. Highways as Network Utilities
Chapter 9. Transforming the Interstate Highways
Chapter 10. Transforming Urban Freeways
Chapter 11. Challenges to the New Vision
Chapter 12. A New Future for US Highways

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	5 halftones, 2 line drawings,
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-226-75930-X / 022675930X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-75930-2 / 9780226759302
Zustand	Neuware