Road User Charges In Central America

Author : Anthony A. Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road User Charges in Central America written by Anthony A. Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of the principles of pricing of road user services to Central America is described. If the maximum net benefit from the highway network is to be achieved, the correct price to be charged users is a price equal to the cost of the resources used up when the journey is made. An attempt is made to estimate the variable maintenance costs generated by vehicles using uncongested highways. Current charges are in considerable excess of the economic costs of using uncongested highways. A high degree of congestion exists in all major Central American cities. Failure to reflect this congestion in the costs of using urban streets is rapidly leading to an intolerable situation. A general recommendation is made that road user charges be reduced in rural areas and increased in urban areas. Gasoline taxes, import duties, and general license fees could be lowered at the same time as urban congestion charges and diesel taxes are raised. Excessive border crossing procedures should be eliminated. Data that should be collected in order to facilitate transport decision making should include traffic counts, velocity studies, freight rates, maintenance costs for select road sections, and post investment studies.

Author : Anthony Churchill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road User Charges in Central America written by Anthony Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Graeme Heggie
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optimal User Charges and Cost Recovery for Roads in Developing Countries written by Ian Graeme Heggie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impact do road user charges have on cost recovery? And when they fail to cover total costs, how should the resulting deficit be financed?

Author : Reuben Gronau
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are Ghana's Roads Paying Their Way? written by Reuben Gronau and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of road use costs in Ghana showed, first, that such studies are in fact feasible in LDCs, notwithstanding gaps in the data, and second, that they can reveal important inefficiencies in the tax system.

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Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Transportation and Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royce Q. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429726767
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central America Integrat/h written by Royce Q. Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges several widely held assumptions about Central American economic integration, arguing that the key to understanding the failure of the integration program lies in neither advanced economic nor regional integration theory, but in the domestic politics of the states involved. Thus, the author contends that the Common Market was not the cause of the balance-of-payments and balanced-growth crises in Central America; rather, domestic political forces were the major factor in the collapse of the market and the subsequent attempts at restructuring. Professor Shaw disputes the standard interpretations of the role of the technocrats in the integration process and demonstrates that the domestic political elites played an important role throughout. He also challenges the assumption that economic integration is always a force for conciliation, pointing out that the Common Market aggravated some of the conflicts that led to war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Nor are integration programs among less developed countries necessarily instruments of political and social change, according to this analysis; on the contrary, political elites used the Common Market to bypass the internal economic reforms necessary for national development. This study incorporates new material—interview data and other primary source material—on events of the past eight years.

Author : Rachel E. Kranton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pricing, Cost Recovery, and Production Efficiency in Transport written by Rachel E. Kranton and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public sector pricing policies may undermine incentives to reduce costs. Therefore measures to promote cost reduction should be part of any pricing policy reform designed to increase cost recovery.

Author : Timothy Doe-Kwong Hau
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congestion Charging Mechanisms for Roads written by Timothy Doe-Kwong Hau and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many direct and indirect methods for road use, the key alternatives for reducing road congestion are (1) cordon pricing using manual tollbooths, (2) supplementary vehicle licensing, (3) automatic vehicle identification, and (4) smart card technology.

Author : Ashoka Mody
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821335208
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infrastructure Delivery written by Ashoka Mody and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IFC Lessons of Experience Paper No. 3. Describes the International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) 20 years of leasing experience in developing countries and assesses the developmental impact of leasing. The IFC has invested in leasing companies in more than half of the developing countries that have a leasing industry today.

Author : Ian Graeme Heggie
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821342374
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Management and Financing of Roads written by Ian Graeme Heggie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact [email protected] Contact [email protected], if currently unavailable. In developing and transition economies, 60 to 80 percent of all passenger and freight transport moves by road-the main form of access for most rural communities. Yet most of the 11 million kilometers of roads in these economies are badly maintained and poorly managed. This paper discusses one of the most effective ways to promote sound policies for managing and financing road networks--commercialization. It discusses the emerging central concept of bringing roads into the marketplace, putting them on a fee-for-service basis, and managing them like a business.