Allocating Public Funds: Morality and Constraints
The highway safety engineer is continually faced with the trade-off between expenditures for highway safety improvements and reductions in highway fatalities, injuries, and property damage...
Safety Spending: Usually Begrudged, Often Misallocated
The author reviews the engineering decisions and statistical and other measures of project success in the use of Federal and state funds for roadside safety work in the Federal-aid Hazard...
Benefit-Cost Analysis: Past and Future Directions
As implemented at the State level, highway resource allocation models fail to consider the travel time delay and crashes that result from construction. They use the economic costs of crashes...
Highway Safety; Moving from Fantasy to Reality
An assessment of the effects of highway safety program on the reduction of traffic accidents is made. The annual traffic death rate is currently 47,900. The paper discusses whether present...
Plans and Programming for Highway Safety to the Year 2010
Many factors have contributed to improvement in highway safety including more crashworthy vehicle design, increased usage of occupant restraints, growing public intolerance of DWI, and...
Garbage Management in Japan: Leading the Way
Excerpts from a book that details how land-poor Japan has less garbage problems than the land rich United States. Chapter Six, Incineration, is excerpted. In Japan, incineration is regarded...
Prison Construction by Committee
Prisons are providing tremendous engineering, construction and management opportunities. Many states are under court order to upgrade their correctional systems. The tremendous volume...
Highway Safety
At the Crossroads
The papers in this book were presented at the ASCE Specialty Conference, Highway Safety: At the Crossroads, held in San Antonio, Texas, March, 1988. Among the topics covered are: assessment...
Cracking the Academic Job Market
The first step in a teaching career is the academic interview. The candidate should first develop publishable material, then include such publications in a resume to be sent to specific...
State Perspectives on Water Quality Criteria
The Federal Clean Water Act framework for water quality regulation is reviewed. The role of water quality standards in the regulation of stormwater discharges and the protection of beneficial...
Federal Requirements for Storm Water Management Programs
The Water Quality Act has provided the Environmental Protection Agency with the framework for developing a comprehensive storm water management program. The initial phases of the program...
Institutional Stormwater Management Issues
Research, innovation, and structure performance are necessary components of an overall stormwater management program, but program success or failure rests on its institutional framework....
Summary of Institutional Issues
The paper presents a summary of three other papers presented at the meeting on institutional aspects of stormwater quality planning. The three papers represented views expressed by representatives...
The Economic factors of Ground Water Recharge Projects
As a result of the Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986, the State of California is now providing low interest loans to local water agencies to finance ground water recharge...
Ground Water Recharge at the Orange County Water District
In the early part of the century, upstream diversions from the Santa Ana River were reducing the flows to Orange County resulting in less recharge to the Basin and increased pumping of...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1987
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1987
The 1987 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1987. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Emerging Applications of Water Valuation
This paper identifies the emerging importance of the water value concept through a number of applications. These emerging applications include natural resource damage assessment, water...
Solutions to Institutional Constraints in Water Marketing
Free market advocates are attracted by the prospect of an economics-driven allocation system of freely transferrable water rights. Engineers see an opportunity to find wet water for their...
Water Marketing in California
Three observations on water marketing in California are presented. One is that water transfers in California will be between public governmental agencies. The second is that traditional...
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