A MODEL FOR MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FINANCE OF RURAL ROAD SYSTEMS (ABRIDGMENT)

The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, directly manages one of the largest and most varied transportation systems in the world and may be an appropriate model for general management of public and private financial management of rural road systems. The Forest Service system includes approximately 321,000 miles of roads, foot trails, airfields, aerial tramways, waterways, and cableways with low-volume roads making up most of the system. Examined in this paper are the policies and requirements of the Forest Service as a possible model for rural road management and planning, and for cooperative public and private financing. Because the economies of rural areas are generally natural resource based, these policies and requirements should be applicable in some form to rural road systems worldwide. National forest management plans contain the public's objectives for private sector development and public use of forest resources. The national forest road systems are planned and managed to support these objectives. The public and private sectors then cooperate in the financing of construction and maintenance of national forest roads. Explicit development objectives require uniquely supportive road systems in order to properly exploit natural resources. The private sector constructs and maintains roads from which the public can also benefit. This model is an appropriate example for coordinating economic development and roads expansion in rural areas with limited public financial resources.

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• Authors:
  • Farkas, Z Andrew
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 12-15
• Monograph Title: Financing state and local transportation
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1009
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic development; Financing; Forest roads; Forests; Low volume roads; Management; Policy; Private enterprise; Rural highways; Transportation
• Candidate Terms: Highway economics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Management policies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Policy; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457780
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309038200
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 1986 12:00AM