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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 # 50
  Topics include: an economist's look at urban transportation policy; Miami toll truckway proposed to ease port traffic congestion; low-cost bus lines; 10th anniversary of Toronto's 407ETR; what if there were "green" cars?; last "6320" toll road going priva
  Robert Poole
  December 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 49
  Topics include: broader support for PPPs; universal farecards for transit; market pricing of parking; toll truckways and LCVs; reducing congestion in Seattle; follow-up on eliminating toll booths; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  November 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 48
  Topics include: getting rid of toll booths; transit system report shows progress, limits; stopping sprawl to "save the planet;" federal grant for a toll bridge?; cost-effective four-laning; new congestion measures in Atlanta; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 47
  Topics include: FTA embraces HOT/BRT lanes; Indiana Toll Road one year later; thinking through long-term PPPs; cars vs. transit for the job-seeking poor; greenhouse policy run amok; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 46
  Topics include: impact of Minnesota bridge collapse; underestimating the role for tolls and PPPs; National Infrastructure Bank: a bad idea; time for California to switch to HOT lanes; cars vs. transit: packets vs. circuits; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  August 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations #45
  Topics include: freight rail as congestion-reliever?; more information on bus vs. rail transit; congestion and economic health; new Reason policy papers; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 44
  Topics include: Bus Rapid Transit on inexpensive guideways; fragmentation of our highway system?; continuing battles over ports access; pension funds and transportation investment; ethanol and ozone; incentives work to repair California bridge; and other
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 43
  Topics include: the basics of toll road concession deals; financing new roads vs. pay-as-you-go; guaranteed congestion relief?; rethinking Oregon transportation policy; rethinking CAF�
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 42
  Topics include: facts vs. fictions on toll road concessions; carpool lane follies in California; port emissions and congestion; fresh perspective on urban sprawl; CO2 and cars; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 41
  Topics include: studies conclude HOT lanes best bet; rail versus truck: Amtrak as obstacle; what if a toll road concessionaire goes belly-up?; toll roads and land values; transportation innumeracy and its consequences; and other news.
  March 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 40
  Topics include: a new solution for HOV occupancy enforcement; edgeless cities; arterial underpasses; intermittent bus lanes in Lisbon; more on the trucks-tolls debate; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2007
• Surface Transportation Innovations # 39
  Topics include: new evidence questioning "induced demand;" concessions advancing, along with the backlash; Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America; learning about Europe's tunnels; resisting transportation earmarks; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2007

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