Research Catalog

Title

Street smart : competition, entrepreneurship, and the future of roads / edited by Gabriel Roth ; foreword by Mary E. Peters.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Roth, Gabriel Joseph, 1926-

Description

xvii, 564 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Independent studies in political economy

Uniform Title

Independent studies in political economy.

Subjects

• Routes > Aspect économique
• Roads > Economic aspects
• Privatisation
• Privatization
• Roads > Finance
• Routes > Finances

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Why involve the private sector in the provision of public roads? / Gabriel Roth -- Ch. 2. De-socializing the roads / John Semmens -- Ch. 3. Do holdout problems justify compulsory right-of-way purchase and public provision of roads? / Bruce L. Benson -- Ch. 4. The political economy of private roads / David Levinson -- Ch. 5. Improving road safety by privatizing vehicle and driver testing and licensing / John Semmens -- Ch. 6. Congestion pricing : the Singapore experience / Gopinath Menon -- Ch. 7. Congested roads : an economic analysis with Twin Cities' illustrations / Herbert Mohring -- Ch. 8. Estimating congestion prices, revenues, and surpluses : an example from Manila / Gabriel Roth and Olegario G. Villoria, Jr. -- Ch. 9. Hot lanes in Southern California / Edward C. Sullivan -- Ch. 10. How should the revenues from congestion pricing be spent? / Kenneth J. Button -- Ch. 11. The rise and fall of non-government roads in the United Kingdom / Bruce L. Benson -- Ch. 12. America's toll road heritage : the achievements of private initiative in the nineteenth century / Daniel Klein and John Majewski -- Ch. 13. Streets as private-sector public goods / Fred E. Foldvary -- Ch. 14. Private roads to the future : the Swedish private road associations / Christina Malmberg Calvo and Sven Ivarsson -- Ch. 15. Role of the private sector in managing and maintaining roads / Gunter J. Zietlow -- Ch. 16. New Zealand's path to a good road / J. K. McLay -- Ch. 17. Development of highway concessions on trunk roads in the United Kingdom / Neil Roden -- Ch. 18. Commercializing the management and financing of roads / Ian G. Heggie -- Ch. 19. HOT networks : a new plan for congestion relief and better transit / Robert W. Poole, Jr. and C. Kenneth Orski -- Ch. 20. The way forward to the private provision of public roads / Peter Samuel.

ISBN

• 0765803046 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780765803047 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 141280518X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781412805186 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005053880

OCLC

• ocm61448291
• 61448291
• SCSB-9241189

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries