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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
- Red-Light Cameras and the Enigmatic Jerry Brown
Harris Kenny
February 6, 2012, 4:39pm - A $1 Billion Prize for a 100mpg Car?
Adam Peshek
February 6, 2012, 2:30pm - NYC Parking Under Bloomberg: Bright Potential, Blighted Past
Harris Kenny
February 3, 2012, 7:41pm - Atlanta Streetcar Costs Increase by $22 Million
Baruch Feigenbaum
February 3, 2012, 2:38pm - Virginia Needs to be Cautious and Not Ruin Its Public-Private Partnership Track Record
Robert Poole and Shirley Ybarra
February 2, 2012, 10:50am - Virginia's High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes Changed to 'Express Lanes'
An in-depth look at the highway project
Shirley Ybarra
February 1, 2012 - French Style Light-Rail Will not Work in the U.S.
Baruch Feigenbaum
February 1, 2012, 11:51am - Florida Toll Agencies Should Not Be Consolidated
OOCEA and THEA need to become fully independent, self-supporting local toll authorities, like MDX
Daryl Fleming and Robert Poole
January 30, 2012 - Jerry Brown Continues to Push High-Speed Rail Boondoggle while California Drowns in Debt
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012, 2:59pm - New at Reason: Maryland Announces $456m PPP to Redevelop and Operate I-95 Travel Plazas
Leonard Gilroy
January 27, 2012, 2:16pm - Time to Face Reality on the California High-Speed Rail Project
Cost estimates keep soaring but Gov. Brown keeps pushing the rail system
Adam Summers
January 27, 2012 - Maryland Announces $456m PPP to Redevelop and Operate I-95 Travel Plazas
Deal a win-win for taxpayers, business, state
Leonard Gilroy
January 27, 2012 - CO Lawmakers Considering Statewide Ban of Photo Traffic Enforcement
Harris Kenny
January 24, 2012, 8:09pm - Unintended Consequences Files: Spirit Airlines Announces Government Regulations Force Fee Hike
Anthony Randazzo
January 24, 2012, 1:26pm - California’s Employment Dysfunction
Harris Kenny
January 23, 2012, 4:54pm - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #89
Data Comm moving forward, user fee proposal still with us, new ATC concept from Germany, Spain's ATC reform outsources control towers
Robert Poole
January 23, 2012 - Transportation Funds Should not be Used for Economic Development Purposes
Baruch Feigenbaum
January 19, 2012, 10:16pm - NTSB December Decision is the Wrong Action
Baruch Feigenbaum
January 17, 2012, 9:11am - Surface Transportation Innovations #99
Proposed federal toll regulation opposed, failed biofuels policy, CBO report on highway PPPs, decline in vehicle miles traveled
Robert Poole
January 13, 2012 - CBO Study Gets It "Almost" Right on Highway Public-Private Partnerships
Best federal study yet on highway PPPs still gets a few things wrong
Robert Poole
January 12, 2012 - California's High-Speed Rail Fibs
Adrian Moore
January 10, 2012, 3:42pm - Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #75
Secondary barriers more cost-effective than air marshals, EU airlines protest high speed rail subsidies, TSA checked-luggage screening fiasco, taxiing airliners with the engines off
Robert Poole
January 10, 2012 - Top Twelve Transportation Priorities for 2012
Baruch Feigenbaum
January 9, 2012, 11:35pm - Top Transportation Stories of 2011
Baruch Feigenbaum
January 9, 2012, 8:54am - The Detailed Concerns of the CA HSR Peer Review Group
Adrian Moore
January 9, 2012, 5:48am - New web site: Priceroads.com
Samuel Staley
January 8, 2012, 12:31pm - Yes, Traffic Congestion Does Hurt Cities
Samuel Staley
January 8, 2012, 8:00am - Traffic Congestion and the Economic Decline of Cities
How traffic is costing people jobs and stifling economic growth
Samuel Staley
January 5, 2012 - CA HSR Failure a No Brainer in FL
Adrian Moore
January 4, 2012, 8:05pm - China High-Speed Rail Report Cites Flaws in Program Development
Samuel Staley
January 4, 2012, 8:41am - Benefits of Revenue-Risk Concessions
Getting more value out of highway infrastructure through the revenue-risk concession model
Robert Poole
January 3, 2012 - Is the Decline in U.S. Driving a Statistical Artifact?
Samuel Staley
January 2, 2012, 11:28am - TIGER III Grants Disproportionally Awarded to Democratic Congressional Districts
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 28, 2011, 3:07pm - Is It Time to Bury Roads?
Samuel Staley
December 27, 2011, 6:34pm - Reducing Congestion on a Budget: Turn Lanes
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 21, 2011, 3:16pm - Poll Shows How People Think We Should Pay for Roads, Rail and Other Infrastructure
Robert Poole
December 20, 2011, 7:08pm - Poll Finds Support for Toll Roads, Public-Private Partnerships
December 20, 2011, 4:12pm - 77 Percent of Americans Oppose Raising the Gas Tax, Reason-Rupe Transportation Poll Finds
Poll finds a majority of voters support tolls over taxes to pay for roads and favor using public-private partnerships to build critical infrastructure
December 20, 2011 - Reason-Rupe Transportation Poll
December 20, 2011 - High-Speed Rail Gets Congressional Scrutiny
Samuel Staley
December 19, 2011, 5:42pm - Congestion Coalition Regains Strength Despite Research
Samuel Staley
December 18, 2011, 6:08pm - Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #88
Space-based ADS-B, ATC not improving in Europe, Russia agrees to end flyover tax
Robert Poole
December 16, 2011 - Obama Administration's Missteps in High-Speed Rail
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 16, 2011, 9:09am - Intercity Buses are the Cost Effective Transportation Option
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 15, 2011, 12:00pm - Surface Transportation Innovations #98
When a toll becomes a tax, TIFIA expansion, transportation and GHGs, NTSB report on "curbside" buses, perspectives on "marine highways"
Robert Poole
December 15, 2011 - Sorry, Virginians, Roads Aren't Free
Samuel Staley
December 10, 2011, 9:26pm - Airport Policy and Security Newsletter #74
Landmark noise settlement in Ft. Lauderdale, backscatter body scanners under new scrutiny, niche airlines and airports test new business models
Robert Poole
December 9, 2011 - Risks and Rewards of Public-Private Partnerships for Highways
The reasons public-private partnerships are being used to fund infrastructure
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 8, 2011 - Virginia Enters Into Comprehensive Public Private Partnership in Hampton Roads
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 6, 2011, 6:54pm - Using Shoulders as Travel Lanes
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 6, 2011, 2:48pm
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
Transportation Blog
- Red-Light Cameras and the Enigmatic Jerry Brown (2/6)
- A $1 Billion Prize for a 100mpg Car? (2/6)
- NYC Parking Under Bloomberg: Bright Potential, Blighted Past (2/3)
- Atlanta Streetcar Costs Increase by $22 Million (2/3)
- Virginia Needs to be Cautious and Not Ruin Its Public-Private Partnership Track Record (2/2)
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Poole's Newsletter
- Surface Transportation Innovations #99
Proposed federal toll regulation opposed, failed biofuels policy, CBO report on highway PPPs, decline in vehicle miles traveled
January 13, 2012
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