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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 - Preserving the Highway Trust Fund and Paying for Transit Projects (2/9)
- Housing Bubble Over? Hardly (2/9)
- In Nebraska Child Welfare Reform Should Focus on Removing Fewer Children not Starting New State Agencies (2/9)
- House Passes Legislation Putting the GSEs on Budget (2/8)
- Bernanke is Depriving Most Americans from Creating Real Wealth (2/8)
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In Darkness and Safe House
No direction home
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ObamaCare's Medicaid Mandate
Is the health care law's Medicaid expansion unconstitutional?
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Warren Buffett: Baptist and Bootlegger
How America?s favorite billionaire plays politics to make money
(2/9)
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Government Can?t Make Us Happy
Even the staunchest proponents of government intervention to increase happiness admit that there?s no relationship.
(2/9)
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Appease This!
Foreign policy under Obama is not much different from what we would have expected had Bush stayed for a third term.
(2/9)
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Romney Most Electable Candidate, Yet Gingrich in Statistical Tie Among GOP Voters
(1/31)
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Explaining Newt?s Second Surge
Why is the disgraced former House speaker winning Republican votes?
(1/26)
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George Washington Would Beat Out Romney as Richest President; John Kerry Would Have, Too
(1/25)
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