Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our measure correlates strongly and positively with other...

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der handelsrechtlichen Bilanzierung der staatlichen Straßeninfrastruktur und stellt die Vorteile eines Umstiegs auf eine transparentere öffentliche Rechnungslegung heraus. Reinhardt Stuhr zeigt anhand der Zwecke der öffentlichen Rechnungslegung, dass die...

Transport infrastructure opens new routes and creates connections. It increases prosperity by generating economic opportunities, reducing transport costs and supporting agglomeration economies. However, the increased traffic flows also generate environmental and social costs. In Korea, the...

In their quest to become highly efficient and professional asset managers in maintaining their roadnetworks and delivering a programme of network improvements some road administrations haveundergone significant changes in the way they operate in order to become more efficient and provide amore...

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Old ways: the local road-building regime in late-nineteenth-century New York -- New ways: the emergence of a subfederal road-building regime, 1898-1919 -- Highways: state-centered bureaucracy and the elevation of engineer-administrators, 1919-1930 -- Clearing the way: depression, war, and the...

The report covers the European Investment Banku0092s (EIB) portfolio of completed transport projects in central and eastern Europe financed between 1990 and 1999, inclusive. During this period, the Bank financed 58 projects for a total disbursed amount of some u00804.9 billion. Of this,...