Rethinking America's Highways: A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure b

Description: Rethinking America's Highways by Robert W. Poole Jr. 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 Americas 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1. Our Troubled Highway System Chapter 2. How the Private Sector Is Reinventing Americas Freeways Chapter 3. Where Americas 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 Review "Every policy wonk and politician interested in infrastructure should read Bobs book." -- Chris Edwards * CATO Institute *"While per-gallon fuel taxes served as a proxy for our highway needs in the past, the pending insolvency of the federal Highway Trust Fund proves that model to be unsustainable. As Poole suggests, there are clear paths to self-supporting infrastructure by seeing highways as an asset class, and by creating an environment that taps into now widely available global infrastructure investment funds. Poole offers a well-reasoned transition from the failing 20th-century highway model to one that can sustain and support our country for the 21st century." -- Mary Peters, former US Secretary of Transportation"Robert Pooles bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure could not come at a better time. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the endemic, seemingly intractable problems facing our nations infrastructure, and offers a practical set of solutions. He explains not only how the tolling and private participation used around the world can improve US transportation infrastructure, but how decades-old lessons from utility regulation will ensure that those policies are in the public interest. This book is a must-read for anyone wanting a clear policy guide for moving US infrastructure into the 21st century." -- Rick Geddes, Cornell University"In Rethinking Americas Highways, Poole furthers his reputation as one of the worlds leading experts on infrastructure and public-private partnerships. In this book, he brilliantly demonstrates how an economic model for highways, rather than our current political approach, would unlock substantial value." -- Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard University"Are politicians ever celebrated for preventing bridges and roads from crumbling? No, they are celebrated for cutting ribbons on brand-new infrastructure projects, regardless of their economic soundness over time. This is one reason I find Robert Pooles argument in Rethinking Americas Highways so appealing. It is vitally important that we depoliticize infrastructure by turning state transportation departments into public utilities, a seemingly modest change that would have enormously beneficial consequences." * National Review * Review Quote "While per-gallon fuel taxes served as a proxy for our highway needs in the past, the pending insolvency of the federal Highway Trust Fund proves that model to be unsustainable. As Poole suggests, there are clear paths to self-supporting infrastructure by seeing highways as an asset class, and by creating an environment that taps into now widely available global infrastructure investment funds. Poole offers a well-reasoned transition from the failing 20th-century highway model to one that can sustain and support our country for the 21st century." Details ISBN022675930X Short Title Rethinking Americas Highways Pages 352 Language English ISBN-10 022675930X ISBN-13 9780226759302 Format Paperback Subtitle A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure DEWEY 388.1220973 Year 2021 Author Robert W. Poole Jr. UK Release Date 2021-01-01 Imprint University of Chicago Press Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2021-01-01 US Release Date 2021-01-01 Illustrations 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 2021-01-01 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161778230;

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