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Book Synopsis The First Toll Roads by : David Broderick
Download or read book The First Toll Roads written by David Broderick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows why Ireland's first toll roads, known as turnpike roads, came into existence. It traces the development of Ireland's principal roads, the basis of our present arterial system, from the late medieval period. Originally based on the port of Dublin, the turnpike roads quickly spread to Cork, Limerick, Belfast and eventually the rest of the country except the northwest.
Book Synopsis An Early Toll-road by : David Broderick
Download or read book An Early Toll-road written by David Broderick and published by Maynooth Studies in Local Hist. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a record of how the Dublin-Dunleer Turnpike "came into existence, how it operated and how it ended"--Introduction.
Book Synopsis The Pennsylvania Turnpike by : Mitchell E. Dakelman
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Turnpike written by Mitchell E. Dakelman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Book Synopsis Toll Road Traffic and Revenue Forecasts by : Robert Bain
Download or read book Toll Road Traffic and Revenue Forecasts written by Robert Bain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toll roads, bridges and tunnels represent the most popular class of infrastructure attracting international private finance today. Many deals, however, expose financiers, insurers and other project counterparties to demand risk. This moves traffic and revenue forecasts centre-stage in terms of being able to understand and test the investment proposition - yet the forecasting process itself often remains a mystery. Additionally, there are frequent concerns about predictive reliability. Written specifically for credit analysts, investors and other professionals whose primary expertise lies outside transportation, this book lifts the lid on the 'black box' of traffic and revenue forecasting. The author, Robert Bain (ex-S&P and a civil engineer with 20+ years of forecasting experience) has prepared a straightforward guide which highlights key issues to watch for and suggests ways in which the forecasts can be analysed to improve transparency and investor understanding.
Download or read book Mount Mitchell written by Jeff Lovelace and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short line mountain railroads are often miracles of construction. Built primarily for shipping logs, the Mount Mitchell Railroad was no exception. Within a span of 21 miles, the road climbed 3,500 feet, but utilized only three trestles and nine switchbacks, while maintaining a grade of five and a half percent. In this richly illustrated work the author brings to life a time when Mount Mitchell was dressed in virgin timber. Access to the mountain, located in Western North Carolina, was slow and difficult; but after completion of the railroad, a timbering industry was born. The railroad also provided tourists with scenic trips along its rugged contours.
Download or read book National League for Good Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking America's Highways by : Robert W. Poole
Download or read book Rethinking America's Highways written by Robert W. Poole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Profiles by : Patrick M. Reynolds
Download or read book Pennsylvania Profiles written by Patrick M. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1985-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lincoln Highway by : Brian Butko
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Brian Butko and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated edition. Filled with all-new vintage postcards and photos. Maps for travelers following the original route.
Book Synopsis Estimating Toll Road Demand and Revenue by : David S. Kriger
Download or read book Estimating Toll Road Demand and Revenue written by David S. Kriger and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2006 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Toll Road written by Kristina Turnage and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will you do when the world as we know it tumbles into chaos? The Toll Road is a collection of three short stories. Each tale delves into a terrifying dystopian scenario: First, "The Toll Road" opens with an attack on Jake Sheffield, a man journeying cross country to be with his sister after a solar flare has caused destruction and hysteria. Next, in "Revolution," Laura Haywood tries to fly under the radar in a world where Big Brother is always watching and ready to eliminate anyone who dissents. And finally, in "Bishop Farm," young Molly and family take refuge in the mountains of West Virginia after an economic disaster leads to wide-scale rioting.
Book Synopsis Transport and Economy by : Eric Pawson
Download or read book Transport and Economy written by Eric Pawson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying the Toll written by Louise Dyble and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll describes the high-stakes struggles for control of the Golden Gate Bridge, and offers a rare inside look at the powerful and secretive agency that built a regional transportation empire with its toll revenue.
Book Synopsis The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland by : Frederic James Wood
Download or read book The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland written by Frederic James Wood and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States, in the Years 1807 and 1808 by : Edward Augustus Kendall
Download or read book Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States, in the Years 1807 and 1808 written by Edward Augustus Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motoring written by John A. Jakle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.
Book Synopsis Private Toll Roads in the United States by : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
Download or read book Private Toll Roads in the United States written by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
