... private highways in the United States, which use tolls to pay for construction and maintenance. There are many local private roads, generally serving remote or insular residences. Passenger and freight rail systems, bus systems, water ...

... private highways in the United States. But the U.S. experience may be important for developing nations. Many such nations have exceedingly poor infrastructure and cash-strapped governments that appear unable or unwilling to build or ...

... private highways in the United States until 1916—even a few in the last half-century.46 A variety of services that people now assume only the government can provide in fact used to be privately provided. From 1750 to around 1900, fire ...