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"The Reason Foundation in Los Angeles is the nation's foremost expert in free-market transportation alternatives such as toll roads and express highway lanes for commuter buses."
The Wall Street Journal
"For 17 years, Mr. Poole has been the chief theorist for private solutions to gridlock. His ideas are now embraced by officials from Sacramento to Washington."
The New York Times
"Truck-only toll lanes are the brainchild of Robert Poole, an engineer who oversees transportation studies at the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank in Los Angeles."
USA Today
- New York City Launches Parking Meter Privatization Initiative
Leonard Gilroy
May 24, 2012, 7:00am - States and Cities Going Private With Infrastructure Investment
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
May 24, 2012 - Parking Privatization Blossomed in 2011
Several city, university parking privatization initiatives advanced in 2011
Harris Kenny
May 22, 2012 - Air Traffic Control Reform News #93
How to implement “Best-Equipped/Best Served” | Two steps forward for RNP | Getting GPS backup onto the national agenda | Creating a supportive culture for NextGen | News Notes | Quotable Quote
Robert Poole
May 21, 2012 - CA High-Speed Rail and Positive Train Control in the News
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 18, 2012, 4:30pm - Transportation Policymakers Need to Use Congestion Pricing More
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 18, 2012, 3:58pm - Polling Metro Denver Voters' Support of Tax Hikes for Public Transit
Harris Kenny
May 18, 2012, 12:09pm - Private Sector's Increasing Role in Infrastructure Investment
Harris Kenny
May 17, 2012, 9:16pm - Senate Transportation Bill Uses Creative Math
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 17, 2012, 10:07am - Reason Foundation, Bipartisan Policy Center, Building America's Future and Others Urge Congress to Give State and Local Governments More Transportation Flexibility
Fix the highway bill so state and local governments have flexibility to use pricing, private capital and other needed funding sources
Shirley Ybarra
May 16, 2012 - Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Renaissance Continuing in 2012
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012, 4:40pm - Surface Transportation Innovations #103
Bingaman anti-PPP battle continues | Fresh thinking on federal role in goods movement | California high-speed rail under fire again | Revisiting housing plus transportation costs | Natural gas for trucks? Maybe | Upcoming Conferences | News Notes | Quotab
May 15, 2012 - Puerto Rico Building Robust Infrastructure Privatization Program
Puerto Rico advanced public-private partnerships in schools, highways and aviation in 2011
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - Villaraigosa Administration Advocating Reform in Los Angeles
Debate over city-owned parking garages and zoo continues, progress made elsewhere
Harris Kenny
May 15, 2012 - Christie Administration Expanded Privatization Portfolio in New Jersey in 2011
Initiatives advanced in toll collection, road maintenance, racing facilities and more
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - Kasich Administration Advanced Privatization in Ohio in 2011
Initiatives advanced in economic development, asset realignment and more
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012 - Emanuel Administration Embracing Private Sector Competition in Chicago
New $7 billion infrastructure trust developing alongside initiatives in recycling, water and elsewhere
Harris Kenny
May 15, 2012 - Washington Outer Beltway and I-495 BRT Have Benefits
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 11, 2012, 8:27am - The Senate's Transportation Bill Attacks Public-Private Partnerships
How and why the surface transportation reauthorization bill would deprive states of a much-needed tool for expanding investment in highways and transit
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 11, 2012 - A Better Way to Limit Congestion on Roads
How applying the Managed Lanes concept to arterials could reduce traffic
Chris Swenson and Robert Poole
May 9, 2012 - Private Screening Could Solve TSA Theft Issues
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 9, 2012, 1:36pm - Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #79
Privatized cargo airport, passenger record sharing and potential high-speed rail competition for aviation
Robert Poole
May 8, 2012 - Much of the Capital in PPPs Comes from American Sources
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 4, 2012, 6:00am - Secretary LaHood Should Focus on Real Driving Dangers
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 3, 2012, 5:00pm - Lawmakers Should Delay Implementing Positive Train Control
Why this costly tool isn't the only answer to commuter train safety
Baruch Feigenbaum
May 3, 2012 - Privatization of Airports, Air Traffic Control and Airport Security
Aviation Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Robert Poole
May 1, 2012 - The Year 2011 in Toll Roads, HOT Lanes, Infrastructure Finance
Surface Transportation Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Robert Poole
May 1, 2012 - Privatization, Outsourcing and Insourcing Trends in Federal Government
Federal Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Adam Summers and Anthony Randazzo
May 1, 2012 - Annual Privatization Report 2011
Privatization trends in local, state and federal government, plus roads, highways, aviation, education and telecom
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
May 1, 2012 - Chicago, Los Angeles, Tulsa and Jacksonville and Other Local Governments Turning to Privatization
Harris Kenny
April 30, 2012, 7:20pm - U.S. Transportation Public-Private Partnerships at Risk
Why it's important to debunk false claims against PPPs
April 30, 2012 - Being Taken for a Ride on High-Speed Rail in California
Adam Summers
April 27, 2012, 4:21pm - Californians Being Taken for a Ride on High-Speed Rail
Why California's latest high-speed rail plan lacks merit
Adam Summers
April 27, 2012 - The Year 2011 in Surface Transportation and Aviation Privatization
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 26, 2012, 10:53am - Las Vegas City Neighborhoods Fare Worse Than Suburbs
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 25, 2012, 5:00pm - Romney's Transportation and Land Use Policies may be Little Different than Obama's
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 25, 2012, 1:54pm - Denver's RTD Abandons Tax Hike for FasTracks
Harris Kenny
April 25, 2012, 12:56pm - Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in Local Government in 2011
Harris Kenny
April 25, 2012, 12:00am - New at Reason: Review of Federal Privatization Issues in 2011 and Today
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
April 23, 2012, 11:59pm - Air Traffic Control Reform News #92
Should Passengers Pay for NextGen? NetJets vs. the IRS Competition in Space-Based ADS-B Blended Airspace for Low-Traffic Airports ICAO Case Studies on ANSP Commercialization Upcoming Conference News Notes Quotable Quote
Robert Poole
April 19, 2012 - Midtown Tunnel Could Die Without Tolls
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 16, 2012, 6:00am - Denver’s RTD Publishes 2011 Report on FasTracks
Harris Kenny
April 15, 2012, 5:56pm - Tunnel Project Needs to Move Ahead
Improvements are vital to mobility, port commerce and regional economy
Shirley Ybarra and Leonard Gilroy
April 13, 2012 - Midtown Tunnel Likely Dies without Tolls
Private financing is best path forward for tunnel expansion, highway improvements
Leonard Gilroy and Baruch Feigenbaum
April 13, 2012 - Washington's Road to Economic Decline
Adrian Moore
April 12, 2012, 4:55pm - China Can Use Market-Based Solutions for its Congestion Problems
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 12, 2012, 11:25am - DOT OIG Uncovers Financial Mismanagement in TIGER Grants
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 11, 2012, 9:38pm - Ybarra and Gilroy in Virginian-Pilot: Midtown Tunnel PPP needs to move ahead
Leonard Gilroy
April 11, 2012, 3:31pm - Surface Transportation Innovations #102
In this issue: Urban highway tunnels Senate puts tolling and PPPs at risk Managed lanes lauded by Fitch Rest areas and rhetoric Misguided attack on TIFIA Upcoming Conferences News Notes Quotable Quotes
Robert Poole
April 11, 2012 - Red-Light Cameras: Are They Legal? Do They Make Intersections Safer?
Harris Kenny
April 9, 2012, 5:57pm
Featured Research
- 19th Annual Highway Report
The Performance of State Highway Systems (1984-2008) - Restoring Trust In the Highway Trust Fund
Refocusing the federal transportation program and restoring the users-pay principle to highway infrastructure
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Poole's Newsletter
- Surface Transportation Innovations #103
Bingaman anti-PPP battle continues | Fresh thinking on federal role in goods movement | California high-speed rail under fire again | Revisiting housing plus transportation costs | Natural gas for trucks? Maybe | Upcoming Conferences | News Notes | Quotab
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