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Book Transportation Finance  Meeting the Funding Challenge Today  Shaping Policies for Tomorrow

Download or read book Transportation Finance Meeting the Funding Challenge Today Shaping Policies for Tomorrow written by Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conference Proceedings 33

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  • Author : Transportation Research Board
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  • Release : 2005
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Download or read book Conference Proceedings 33 written by Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transportation Finance

Download or read book Transportation Finance written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2005 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Works  Public Wealth

Download or read book Public Works Public Wealth written by Everett Ehrlich and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's infrastructure policy is at a crossroads, caught between rising demands and outdated programs to address them. Airports, highways, ports, and harbors are severely congested. Drinking water and wastewater facilities, bridges, dams and school buildings are in poor condition. The cost of these failures is great: time is lost to delay, commerce is impeded, business productivity is compromised, and lives are threatened. Yet federal investment in public infrastructure has decreased steadily as a share of both the economy and federal spending over the past two decades. The risk of under investment is only part of the equation. Of equal or greater concern is the prospect that the investments we make are not the right ones. Our nation's infrastructure policy favors new construction even when maintenance, renovation, and improved management offer better responses to the problem. Infrastructure policy favors politics over sound investment principles. And as our programs fail to change in response to new realities, additional spending will be progressively less able to solve our infrastructure problems. This report outlines the considerations involved in rethinking infrastructure policy--the types of infrastructure needed, the technology for providing it, and the sophistication of the various actors involved. It makes a case for folding public school buildings into the national infrastructure policy framework. Finally, the report presents a plan to restructure the federal role in infrastructure provision that would improve returns on public investment and strengthen America's economic foundations for the twenty-first century.

Book Infrastructure Planning and Finance

Download or read book Infrastructure Planning and Finance written by Vicki Elmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century. Infrastructure Planning and Finance is designed for the local practitioner or student who wants to learn the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, a program, or an individual infrastructure project. A team of authors with experience in public works, planning, and city government explain the history and economic environment of infrastructure and capital planning, addressing common tools like the comprehensive plan, sustainability plans, and local regulations. The book guides readers through the preparation and development of comprehensive plans and infrastructure projects, and through major funding mechanisms, from bonds, user fees, and impact fees to privatization and competition. The rest of the book describes the individual infrastructure systems: their elements, current issues and a 'how-to-do-it' section that covers the system and the comprehensive plan, development regulations and how it can be financed. Innovations such as decentralization, green and blue-green technologies are described as well as local policy actions to achieve a more sustainable city are also addressed. Chapters include water, wastewater, solid waste, streets, transportation, airports, ports, community facilities, parks, schools, energy and telecommunications. Attention is given to how local policies can ensure a sustainable and climate friendly infrastructure system, and how planning for them can be integrated across disciplines.

Book Financing Surface Transportation in the United States

Download or read book Financing Surface Transportation in the United States written by Benjamin Gerry Perez and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "TRB's Conference Proceedings 48: Financing Surface Transportation in the United States: Forging a Sustainable Future--Now summarizes a May, 2010 conference that focused on developments in innovative funding techniques and options for securing continued revenue to support national infrastructure and mobility needs. Views presented in Conference Proceedings 48 reflect the opinions of the individual participants and are not necessarily the views of all conference participants, the planning committee, TRB, or the National Research Council."--Publisher's description.

Book Transportation Financing

Download or read book Transportation Financing written by John Hamilton Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fuel Tax and Alternatives for Transportation Funding

Download or read book The Fuel Tax and Alternatives for Transportation Funding written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of the Long-Term Viability of Fuel Taxes for Transportation Finance and published by Transportation Research Board National Research. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Innovative Infrastructure Finance

Download or read book Innovative Infrastructure Finance written by Can Chen and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure is the foundation of modern economies. A robust, efficient, and well-maintained infrastructure system is critical to support the nation’s economy, improve quality of life, and strengthen global competitiveness. The serious infrastructure deficit in the U.S. is well-known. State and local governments are struggling to finance the needed expansion, upgrades, and repairs. Meeting the infrastructure financing challenge has emerged as one of the most urgent issues facing the country. Despite the growing number of innovations in state and local infrastructure financing, current information on innovative infrastructure financing is scattered and time-consuming to find. Until now, there was no detailed, comprehensive assessment of current knowledge and practice in innovative infrastructure financing. This book fills that gap and offers policy suggestions for state and local government managers who are considering the adoption and implementation of innovative infrastructure financing. It provides detailed case studies and rich examples that describe innovative approaches to fund state and local infrastructure development. These experiences and lessons in applying these innovations will be particularly useful for state and local government practitioners, professors, applied policy analysts, and students in public administration, policy, and public finance.

Book Debt Finance Practices for Surface Transportation

Download or read book Debt Finance Practices for Surface Transportation written by Tamar Henkin and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2009 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents basic principles of debt issuance for public agencies. The primary focus is on the current practices of state agencies with responsibilities for surface transportation investment. The report may be useful in assisting in the decision on when and how to best use debt financing techniques to fund investments in transportation infrastructure. Anticipated audiences include those with financial oversight responsibilities for state departments of transportation (DOTs), public authorities, and local governments. Others who may benefit include legislative oversight committees and the media. Information for this report was gathered through a literature review, a comprehensive survey of state DOTs, selected interviews, and a study of selected state policies, guidelines, and documentation. Tamar Henkin, on behalf of TransTech Management, Inc., Washington, D.C., collected and synthesized the information and wrote the report. The members of the topic panel are acknowledged on the preceding page. This synthesis is an immediately useful document that records the practices that were acceptable within the limitations of the knowledge available at the time of its preparation. As progress in research and practice continues, new knowledge will be added to that now at hand.

Book Publications Catalog

Download or read book Publications Catalog written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ITF Transport Outlook 2013 Funding Transport

Download or read book ITF Transport Outlook 2013 Funding Transport written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ITF Transport Outlook 2013 presents and discusses global scenarios concerning the development of transport volumes through 2050. The analysis highlights the impact of alternative economic growth scenarios on passenger and freight flows and the consequences of rapid urbanisation outside the OECD.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
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  • Release : 1968
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  • Pages : 1352 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Activities of the Conference  Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports Approved 2000

Download or read book Activities of the Conference Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports Approved 2000 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication describes the activities of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport during 2000 and sets out the Resolutions and Reports approved by the Council of Ministers of Transport during that year.

Book Fifty Years of Transport Policy Successes  Failures and New Challenges

Download or read book Fifty Years of Transport Policy Successes Failures and New Challenges written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This group of papers looks back on fifty years of transport policy and was produced in celebration of ECMT's 50th Anniversary.