Roads cover a significant fraction of the land area in many municipalities. The public provision of roads means this land is exempt from the local property tax. Transferring roads from public to private ownership would not only remove maintenance costs from city budgets, but increase potential property tax revenue as well. This paper calculates the value of the land occupied by roads in sample ...

Roads are frequently cited as a public good even though economists have shown that privatizing the roads would solve some of the problems endemic to public roads, namely, high accident rates, congestion, and pollution (see Roth 1996, 1967; Block 1983, 1979, 1980). Economists have analyzed the problem of externalities and shown how the effects of freerider behavior can be contained. The question...

Roads are pervasive features of modern landscapes and have major impacts on air, land, and water quality. The United States has >6.2 million km of public roads used by >200 million vehicles (National Research Council [NRC]1997). Road corridors (road plus maintained parallel strips) cover 1% of the United States (NRC 1997) but their direct environmental impacts extend to 20% of the land surface ...

Simon P Wolff and Carola J Gillham highlight the negative health consequences of the motor car and argue that these are not inevitable. A land-use and transport policy which will protect and improve public health is not only possible but an urgent necessity.

We investigate the effect of lane kilometers of roads on vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. VKT increases proportionately to roadway lane kilometers for interstate highways and probably slightly less rapidly for other types of roads. The sources for this extra VKT are increases in driving by current residents, increases in commercial traffic, and migration. Increasing lane kilomete...

With an increasing number of private toll road projects constructed or proposed in the U.S. through various forms of public private partnerships, and with more states removing legal constraints on the entry of private roads into the existing public road system, there are imperative needs to analyze the welfare and financial implications of utilizing private sector capitals in road financing for...

Motorcycle accidents have been rapidly growing throughout the years in many countries. Due to various social and economic factors, this type of vehicle is becoming increasingly popular. Over the past years, automated mechanisms to inspect traffic violations such as radars and surveillance cameras are being used ever more. This paper’s goals are the study and implementation of some methods for a...

Bike riding is a lot of fun, but accidents happen. People choose motorbikes over car as it is much cheaper to run, easier to park and flexible in traffic. In India more than 37 million people are using two wheelers. Since usage is high, accident percentage of two wheelers are also high compared to four wheelers. Motorcycles have high rate of fatal accidents than four wheelers. The impacts of th...