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Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter

Reason Foundation's Surface Transportation Innovations newsletter examines and analyzes the latest news on traffic congestion solutions, road funding and infrastructure investement, toll lanes, transit and more.

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• Surface Transportation Innovations #38
  Topics include: reducing congestion in Atlanta; Urban Partnership Agreements boost pricing; the power of the concession model; AAA survey supports tolls over taxes; underutilized rail rights-of-way; refining the managed lanes concept; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  December 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #37
  Topics include: talking tolling with stakeholders; paying for better transportation in California; reflections on the election results; video tolling comes to America; evacuation
  Robert Poole
  November 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #36
  Topics include: Reason's new book on congestion; driving restrictions and air quality; the latest update from the guru of commuting data; two very different models of managed lanes; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #35
  Topics include: Making urban highways more likeable through innovative design; Portland confronts goods-movement congestion; Brookings looks at costs and benefits of rail transit; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #33
  Topics include: why American cities don't work for transit; dueling technologies for future tolling; cleaner diesel trucks and the implications for transportation planning; feedback on the Winston/Langer paper; and quotable quotes.
  Robert Poole
  August 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #34
  Topics include: Reason's first Mobility Project study finds that adding capacity is key to cutting congestion; GAO study shows tolling's potential; feel-good, high cost air quality efforts; Tampa's new elevated express lanes; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  August 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #32
  Topics include: Brookings' new study on highway spending vs. congestion; phasing out toll plazas; evacuations and toll roads; moderate growth projected in vehicle miles traveled; and news notes.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #31
  Topics include: US DOT's new anti-congestion program; tolling key to adding highway capacity; Washington DOT congestion study recommends more lanes and pricing; debunking sprawl misconceptions; and Gabriel Roth's new book on market-based roadways.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #30
  Topics include: new book on future of highways; long-term concessions in Texas; Fitch and S&P on private toll roads; sticker tags making real headway; pricing trucks at ports; gas tax contrarian; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #29
  Topics include: TRB committee concludes tolls should replace fuel taxes; getting serious about traffic congestion; the future of ITS; electronic toll collection for rental cars; urban sprawl myths; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2006
• Surface Transportation Innovations #28
  Topics include: Reason's new Mobility Project; occupancy detection for HOV/HOT lanes; more HOV lane concerns; truck-only toll lanes moving forward; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2006

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