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Local Rural Road System: Alternative Investment Strategies, The

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  • C. Phillip Baumel
  • Sherry Brennan Miller
  • Gregory R. Pautsch
  • Cathy Hamlett

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Many of today's local rural roads and bridges were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s when farms were small, and farmers needed road access to homes, schools, churches and markets. During the 1920s and 1930s, these roads were surfaced mainly with gravel, and bridges were reinforced to carry six-ton loads. Since then, farm size has increased and the number of heavy vehicles traveling on rural roads has also increased to the detriment of the road system. Farmers are using large tandem-axle and semi trailer trucks, long farm tractor-wagon combinations, and wide combines to travel from farms to fields and vice versa. Farm-supply and marketing firms are using similar heavy trucks for pickups and deliveries. At the same time, revenues to maintain the present system and to reconstruct it to accommodate the changing needs of rural America are declining in real terms. Unless revenues increase or the investment needs decline, the local rural road system will continue to deteriorate.

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  • C. Phillip Baumel & Sherry Brennan Miller & Gregory R. Pautsch & Cathy Hamlett, 1989. "Local Rural Road System: Alternative Investment Strategies, The," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 89-tr6, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University.
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    1. Anderson, Connie, 1993. "The perceptions of business owners and managers of the impacts of the rural highway bypass," ISU General Staff Papers 1993010108000017617, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    2. McVey, Marty J. & Pautsch, Gregory R. & Fruin, Jerry E. & Baumel, C. Philip, 1992. "Agricultural Transportation infrastructure issues for the 21st century," Transportation Research Forum Proceedings 1990s 311888, Transportation Research Forum.
    3. Fruin, Jerry E. & Halbach, Daniel Walter, 1992. "Rural Roads, Investment And Disinvestment In A Minnesota County," Staff Papers 13228, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.
    4. Brown, Dennis M. & Flake, Oliver L., 1999. "Rural Transportation: An Annotated Bibliography," Miscellaneous Publications 323881, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    5. Fruin, Jerry E. & Baumel, C. Phillip, 1992. "How Much Transportation Infrastructure Does Rural America Need?," Staff Papers 13247, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.

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