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Book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure

Download or read book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure written by Emile Quinet and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table had two sessions on the topic of pricing the use of transport infrastructure.

Book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure

    Book Details:
  • Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Economic Research Centre and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment

Download or read book Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment written by Edward L. Glaeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Policy-makers often call for expanding public spending on infrastructure, which includes a broad range of investments from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband. Some point to near-term macro-economic benefits and job creation, others focus on long-term effects on productivity and economic growth. This volume explores the links between infrastructure spending and economic outcomes, as well as key economic issues in the funding and management of infrastructure projects. It draws together research studies that describe the short-run stimulus effects of infrastructure spending, develop new estimates of the stock of U.S. infrastructure capital, and explore the incentive aspects of public-private partnerships (PPPs). A salient issue is the treatment of risk in evaluating publicly-funded infrastructure projects and in connection with PPPs. The goal of the volume is to provide a reference for researchers seeking to expand research on infrastructure issues, and for policy-makers tasked with determining the appropriate level of infrastructure spending"--

Book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure

Download or read book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geographical Disadvantage

Download or read book Geographical Disadvantage written by Anthony Venables and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What effect does distance have on costs for economies at different locations? Exports and imports of final and intermediate goods bear transport costs that increase with distance. Production and trade depend on factor endowments and factor intensities as well as on distance and the transport intensities of different goods"--Cover.

Book The Theory of Access Pricing

Download or read book The Theory of Access Pricing written by Tommaso M. Valletti and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infrastructure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brett M. Frischmann
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 0199333750
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Infrastructure written by Brett M. Frischmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish the terms and conditions under which the public receives access, and to determine how the infrastructure and various dependent systems evolve over time. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy. Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.

Book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure

Download or read book Pricing the Use of Infrastructure written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congestion Pricing and Infrastructure Financing

Download or read book Congestion Pricing and Infrastructure Financing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Costs of Infrastructure Failure

Download or read book Costs of Infrastructure Failure written by John E. Cromwell and published by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the costs and consequences of failures and disruption in electricity service, traffic and travel, water supply, and natural gas service. Factors influencing costs and approaches to estimating costs are discussed. Particular attention is given to difficulties caused by floods and seismic activity. A chapter on risk management is also included. As an "appendix," a spreadsheet user's manual comprises approximately half the volume; related software is included in disk form. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Book Infrastructure s Role in Lowering Asia s Trade Costs

Download or read book Infrastructure s Role in Lowering Asia s Trade Costs written by Douglas H. Brooks and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the analysis of infrastructure's impact on trade costs focuses on conditions in developed countries. This book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding by examining the situation in developing Asia, the world's most populous and fastest growing region. This study analyzes and draws policy implications from infrastructure's central role in lowering Asia's trade costs. Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in.

Book Cost of Maintaining Green Infrastructure

Download or read book Cost of Maintaining Green Infrastructure written by Jane Clary and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost of Maintaining Green Infrastructure reports findings from effort to capture and quantify the expenses associated with operating and maintaining sustainable stormwater-management technologies.

Book Hidden Costs of Energy

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2010-05-26
  • ISBN : 0309155800
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Hidden Costs of Energy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are not reflected in energy market prices. When market failures like this occur, there may be a case for government interventions in the form of regulations, taxes, fees, tradable permits, or other instruments that will motivate recognition of these external or hidden costs. The Hidden Costs of Energy defines and evaluates key external costs and benefits that are associated with the production, distribution, and use of energy, but are not reflected in market prices. The damage estimates presented are substantial and reflect damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation, motor vehicle transportation, and heat generation. The book also considers other effects not quantified in dollar amounts, such as damages from climate change, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security. While not a comprehensive guide to policy, this analysis indicates that major initiatives to further reduce other emissions, improve energy efficiency, or shift to a cleaner electricity generating mix could substantially reduce the damages of external effects. A first step in minimizing the adverse consequences of new energy technologies is to better understand these external effects and damages. The Hidden Costs of Energy will therefore be a vital informational tool for government policy makers, scientists, and economists in even the earliest stages of research and development on energy technologies.

Book When the Road Price is Right

Download or read book When the Road Price is Right written by Sarah Jo Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To raise awareness of land use and frame the issues for future research and discussion, the ULI Infrastructure Initiative convened a group of experts, including leaders representing transportation and land development, to participate in workshops and interviews conducted in the summer of 2012. Study participants explored scenarios constructed as part of a thought experiment on how land development in metropolitan areas would be affected by the spread of congestion pricing, the expansion of tolled highways, or the adoption of taxes on vehicle-miles travelled (VMT). The ULI Infrastructure Initiative also developed five brief case studies of tolling in Florida, Texas, California, Colorado and Maryland. The case studies illustrate the different policy options for managing travel reliability, traffic volume, travel speeds, and revenue targets and for integrating tolling and transit service. They also explore how these new tolled facilities are being coordinated with land use and development."--Executive summary, P. 1.

Book Pricing the use of infrastructure

Download or read book Pricing the use of infrastructure written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strong Towns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 1119564816
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.