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Street smart : competition, entrepreneurship, and the future of roads
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Street smart : competition, entrepreneurship, and the future of roads

Author: Gabriel Joseph Roth
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, ©2006.
Series: Independent studies in political economy
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gabriel Joseph Roth
ISBN: 0765803046 9780765803047 141280518X 9781412805186
OCLC Number: 61448291
Description: xvii, 564 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Independent studies in political economy
Responsibility: edited by Gabriel Roth ; foreword by Mary E. Peters.
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