Title Measuring and improving infrastructure performance / Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 122 pages) : illustrations, charts Series Studies in infrastructure technology and policy Studies in infrastructure technology and policy Contents Infrastructure performance and its measurement -- The performance assessment process -- Measures of infrastructure performance -- Infrastructure improvement through performance-based management -- Findings, conclusions, and recommendations Summary The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally supports our economy and quality of life. Developing a framework for guiding attempts at measuring the performance of infrastructure systems and grappling with the concept of defining good performance are the major themes of this book. Focusing on urban regions, within a context of national policy, the volume provides the basis for further in-depth analysis and application at the local, regional, state, and national levels Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Government policy -- United States Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States -- Evaluation POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. Infrastructure (Economics) -- Evaluation Infrastructure (Economics) -- Government policy Infra-estrutura urbana -- Estados unidos. United States Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance LC no. 95068207 ISBN 0585144400 9780585144405 9780309587105 0309587107

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