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The road to renewal : private investment in U.S. transportation infrastructure /
Despite record levels of government spending, America's transportation system is plagued by traffic congestion, decaying infrastructure, and politicization of transportation funding-leading to calamities such as the 2007 collapse an interstate highway bridge over the Mississippi River and polit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. : Lanham, Md. :
AEI Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. [distributor],
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Despite record levels of government spending, America's transportation system is plagued by traffic congestion, decaying infrastructure, and politicization of transportation funding-leading to calamities such as the 2007 collapse an interstate highway bridge over the Mississippi River and political fiascos like Alaska's infamous "Bridge to Nowhere." In The Road to Renewal, R. Richard Geddes surveys the current state of U.S. ground transportation and finds that, like the roads themselves, transportation policy is in desperate need of repair. A shift toward increased use of public-private partnerships (PPPs)-contractual agreements that allow private participation in the design, construction, operation, and delivery of transportation facilities-could significantly improve the quality of U.S. roadways |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-172) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780844743486 0844743488 1283029391 9781283029391 9786613029393 6613029394 |