National Transportation Planning: Lessons for Developing Countries from the U.S. Experience
This work, based on research for the World Bank, summarizes the U.S. experience with interstate highways and interprets lessons for developing countries. The U.S. developed a set of institutions and financing mechanisms that were well suited to building national highways, but those same institutions and tax instruments were ill suited to the era of maintenance, externality management, and urban transportation that followed the early highway-building years. The analysis, with policy recommendations, is summarized in:
M. Boarnet, “National Transportation Planning: Lessons from the U.S. Interstate Highways,” Transport Policy, 2014, vol. 31, pp. 73-82. [full article] or click here for the pre-publication version.
