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Alternate route : toward efficient urban transportation / Clifford Winston and Chad Shirley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winston, Clifford, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban transportation policy--United States.
- Urban transportation policy.
- Urban transportation.
- Cost effectiveness.
- United States.
- Urban transportation--United States--Planning.
- Planning.
- Urban transportation--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Traffic congestion--United States.
- Traffic congestion.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 126 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis of public and private sector capabilities, concluding that public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading role in the provision of urban transportation.
- Contents:
- Introduction and overview
- The urban transit operating and institutional environment
- Travelers' preferences for urban transportation
- The economic effects of net-benefit maximization
- Sources of inefficiencies
- An alternative route: privatization
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815793820
- 0815793812
- OCLC:
- 39354210
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