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

Description: Rethinking America's Highways by Robert W. Poole An argument for changing the way we finance American highways to a pay-as-you-go model. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. 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 "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 ISBN022655757X Year 2018 ISBN-10 022655757X ISBN-13 9780226557571 Format Hardcover Author Robert W. Poole Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States DEWEY 388.1220973 Pages 352 Media Book Publication Date 2018-06-04 Short Title Rethinking Americas Highways Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-04 NZ Release Date 2018-06-04 US Release Date 2018-06-04 Illustrations 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 14 tables Publisher The University of Chicago Press Audience General AU Release Date 2018-08-02 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:131276697;

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