Street smart : competition, entrepreneurship, and the future of roads /: competition, entrepreneurship, and the future of roads. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gabriel Roth ; foreword by Mary E. Peters.
• Other Names: Roth, Gabriel Joseph, 1926-
• Contents: Why involve the private sector in the provision of public roads? / Gabriel Roth -- De-socializing the roads / John Semmens -- Do holdout problems justify compulsory right-of-way purchase and public provision of roads? / Bruce L. Benson -- The political economy of private roads / David Levinson -- Improving road safety by privatizing vehicle and driver testing and licensing / John Semmens -- Congestion pricing : the Singapore experience / Gopinath Menon -- Congested roads : an economic analysis with Twin Cities' illustrations / Herbert Mohring -- Estimating congestion prices, revenues, and surpluses : an example from Manila / Gabriel Roth and Olegario G. Villoria, Jr. -- HOT lanes in Southern California / Edward C. Sullivan -- How should the revenues from congestion pricing be spent? / Kenneth J. Button -- The rise and fall of non-government roads in the United Kingdom / Bruce L. Benson -- America's toll road heritage : the achievements of private initiative in the nineteenth century / Daniel Klein and John Majewski -- Streets as private sector public goods / Fred E. Foldvary -- Private roads to the future : the Swedish private road associations / Christina Malmberg Calvo and Sven Ivarsson -- Role of the private sector in managing and maintaining roads / Gunter J. Zietlow -- New Zealand's path to a good road / J.K. McLay -- Development of highway concessions on trunk roads in the United Kingdom / Neil Roden -- Commercializing the management and financing of roads / Ian G. Heggie -- HOT networks : a new plan for congestion relief and better transit / Robert W. Poole, Jr. and C. Kenneth Orski -- The way forward to the private provision of public roads / Peter Samuel.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (581 pages)
• Subjects: 388.1; Roads -- Economic aspects; Roads -- Finance; Privatization; Routes -- Aspect économique; Routes -- Finances; Privatisation; Privatization; Roads -- Economic aspects; Roads -- Finance; Straßenbau; Finanzierung; Privatisierung; Finanzierung; Privatisierung; Strassenbau
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351487894; 1351487892
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.