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Surface Transportation Innovations Reason Foundation's Surface Transportation Innovations newsletter regularly examines and analyzes the latest news and developments in toll lanes, congestion solutions, road funding issues, and more. If you would like to receive the Surface Transportation Innovations newsletter via email, please send an email with your contact information to Robert Poole, Reason's director of transportation studies

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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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