Transportation investments in response to economic downturns

"Transportation Investments in Response to Economic Downturns, Transportation Research Board Special Report 312, provides guidance for federal and state officials on the best ways to use stimulus funds for transportation in the future and methods for evaluating such investments. The report exam...

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Autor Corporativo: National Research Council. Committee on Economic and Employment Benefits of Transportation Investments in Response to Economic Downturns (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. 20001 : Transportation Research Board 2014.
Colección:National Academies ebooks.
Transportation Research Board special report ; 312.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44938366*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Study origin and objectives
  • Use of transportation spending as stimulus: arra and past recessions
  • Status of federal and state transportation funding
  • Sources of information
  • Fiscal policy in recessions and the role of transportation spending
  • Fiscal policy in response to recessions
  • Transportation spending as fiscal stimulus
  • Design, management, and outcomes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  • Transportation grants
  • Arra transportation provisions
  • Administration of arra transportation grants
  • Transportation spending and construction employment during arra
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • Conclusions
  • Recommendations.