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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Infrastructure planning, engineering and economics
  name:
    name part: Goodman, Alvin S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hastak, Makarand
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McGraw-Hill Companies
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, N.Y
    publisher: McGraw-Hill Education LLC.
    date issued: c2015
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 2nd edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages) : illustrations, figs., tables.
  abstract: The new edition of this infrastructure planning and management resource has been fully updated and streamlined to improve ease of use for instructors, students, and professionals alike. It features global case studies and includes a new chapter on sustainability for design, construction, and maintenance.
  table of contents: A. About asce -- B. Dedication -- C. About the authors -- D. Preface -- E. Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- Scope -- Definitions of ?public works? and ?infrastructure? -- Examples of infrastructure projects -- Categories of public infrastructure projects -- Typical infrastructure planning steps -- Goals and objectives -- Programming and budgeting process of public works agencies -- Evolution of infrastructure planning process -- Relationships between infrastructure and development -- Several important principles for project designs in developing countries -- Federal infrastructure strategy program -- Infrastructure asset management -- 2. Planning contexts, perspectives, and objectives -- Scope -- Planning sequences -- Basic contexts for planning public works and infrastructure -- Some important perspectives for public works and infrastructure -- Previously mentioned ?new? objectives and issues -- Economic objectives in the united states -- Infrastructure programs which do not require benefit-cost analysis -- Private enterprises and infrastructure planning -- System of law -- Federal law -- State and local law -- Eminent domain and zoning -- Water rights -- Other comments concerning legal and institutional issues -- 3. Planning and appraisal of major infrastructure projects -- Scope -- Sequence of studies for a single major infrastructure project -- First stage: preliminary (or reconnaissance) report -- Second stage: feasibility report -- Third stage: final design and preparation of contract documents -- Fourth stage: construction -- Fifth stage: operation -- Formulation of a major engineering project -- Project costs -- Costs for professional planning and construction services -- Appraisal process before approval of a major project -- Project delivery methods -- 4. Screening projects and master planning -- Scope -- Planning area -- Needs, problems, and opportunities in planning studies -- Screening procedure for single-purpose projects?emphasis on function, engineerin…
  table of contents: 7. Planning aids -- Scope -- Basic data for planning -- Classification of data -- Aerial photos, remote sensing, gps, and satellites -- Geographic information systems (gis) -- Computer-aided design (cad) -- Computerized data banks and displays -- Overlays and other techniques for suitability mapping -- Generalized estimates -- Forecasting models for infrastructure planning -- Population projections and other demographic studies -- 8. Financial analyses -- Scope -- Types of financial analyses -- General principles for application of financial analyses -- Financial analyses for a municipal water supply project -- Financial analyses for project with different sponsorships -- Financial analyses with multiple financing sources -- Break-even points as financial indicators -- Management of debt service based on financial analysis -- Cost allocations and subsidies -- Accounting for inflation in financial analyses -- Financial issues for local governments -- Financial analyses of privatization schemes -- The privatization movement -- Privatization of existing public works -- Outsourcing (contracting out of public services) -- Accounting documents and issues -- 9. Economic analyses?concepts -- Scope -- General concepts of economic analysis for public works -- Some principles of methodologies for economic analysis of public works -- Examples of benefits conforming to the measurement standard -- Practical methodologies incorporating multiple objectives -- Price elasticity -- Preferred scale of development (considering only economic efficiency) -- Benefit-cost ratio and other measures for ranking projects in the united states -- Characteristics of benefit-cost ratio and internal rate of return -- Selection of discount (interest) rate -- Accounting for inflation in economic analysis -- Accounting for external economies and diseconomies in economic analysis -- With-and-without basis of analysis?the base case (no action alternative) -- Local infrastructure costs as a consideration …
  table of contents: 11. Environmental and social impact assessment?concepts, requirements, and procedures -- Scope -- General concepts of environmental and social impact assessment -- United states laws, regulations, and policies regarding environmental and social impact assessments -- Ceq guidelines for environmental impact statements -- Interpretation of nepa and ceq rules -- Epa role in eia and eis process -- Scoping for the eis -- The ecological and human environments?categories, attributes, and parameters -- Identification of environmental and social impacts over project area and over project cycle -- Special considerations involving land and water interrelationships, energy consumption, and air quality -- Comparison of project alternatives involving environmental and social impacts, including examples -- 12. Environmental and social impact assessment?additional analysis and issues -- Scope -- Concepts of human environment, human well-being, social well-being, social welfare, and quality of life -- Relationships involving infrastructure, quality of life, business development, and urban growth -- Scope of social impact assessments -- Environmental justice -- Sustainability and environmental economics -- Environmental economics?general concepts -- Studies by government agencies on environmental economics -- Cost-effectiveness basis for meeting environmental quality objectives -- Benefit-cost basis for environmental planning -- Role of public involvement in planning -- Purposes and benefits of public participation -- Requirements for public participation -- Factors that contribute to effective participation -- Descriptions of public participation and education techniques -- Case study?new hampshire route 16 corridor study -- 13. Sustainability -- Introduction and scope -- Historical context -- Sustainable development and sustainability -- Dimensions of sustainability -- Weak and strong sustainability -- Sustainability models -- Approaches to sustainability issues in infrastructure pl…
  note: Alvin S. Goodman, Makarand Hastak.
  note: Also issued in online version.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Municipal services
    topic: Planning
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Municipal engineering
    topic: Planning
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Infrastructure (Economics)
    topic: Planning
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  classification: HD4431 .G59 2015
  classification: 352.14
  identifier: 9780071850131 (print ISBN)
  identifier: 0071850139 (print ISBN)
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  record info:
    record creation date: 150521
    record change date: 20241008175919.0
    record identifier: in00005504391