Marc Scribner
Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Marc Scribner is a Senior Transportation Policy Analyst at Reason Foundation.
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Addressing the transit productivity crisis
Public transit ridership is unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels within the next decade.
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Delaware Senate Bill 46 would ban autonomous vehicles
Automated vehicle technology under development could greatly improve road safety and efficiency.
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Tennessee Senate Bill 310 would prohibit driverless vehicles
Automated vehicle technology could greatly improve road safety and efficiency.
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STB should reject Amtrak’s claim to absolute preference over freight rail
Adopting Amtrak’s dubious absolute preference standard runs counter to the public interest by violating principles of Congress’s transportation policy.
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Midnight regulations pursued by the Biden administration’s Department of Transportation
The Fall 2024 Unified Agenda lists 222 active rulemaking projects at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Modernizing air traffic control infrastructure requires institutional modernization
Institutional problems are undermining efforts to modernize infrastructure needed to support continued air traffic volume growth in the National Airspace System.
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Policy discussions around rail safety regulation should consider the role of standards
Any proposed safety regulation should address an identified market failure and avoid short-circuiting the continual evolution of safety-enhancing technologies, standards, and operating practices.
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Massachusetts Question 3 would authorize a union and collective bargaining for ride-hail drivers
The new labor framework would be overseen by state regulators, who would approve agreements between the parties.
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Regulatory agenda may offer glimpse into a potential Harris administration’s transportation automation policy
It's possible Vice President Kamala Harris' close ties to Silicon Valley could lead her potential administration to adopt a more positive and forward-looking view on transportation automation.
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Mandatory reciprocal switching won’t enhance transportation competition
Mandatory reciprocal switching “will lead to decreased network velocity, diminished capital investments into the freight rail network, and deteriorating rail intermodal service levels.”
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Revenue, ridership, and post-pandemic lessons in public transit
The consensus in the transportation research community is nationwide transit ridership is unlikely to recover its pre-pandemic ridership levels in the next decade.
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Takeaways from the NTSB’s final report on the East Palestine derailment
The agency’s findings suggest that a major legislative response from Congress is not needed to advance rail safety.
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Congress must address the transit productivity crisis
Public transit ridership in the United States fell during the COVID-19 pandemic and, as of the first quarter of 2024, has only recovered 76.2% of its 2019 riders.
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Annual Privatization Report 2024 — Aviation
Reviewing developments in the United States and worldwide regarding private-sector participation in airports and air traffic control.
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EPA should deny a Clean Air Act waiver for California’s locomotive emissions regulation
The California Air Resource Board’s In-Use Locomotive Regulation mandates unproven technology and would impose large compliance costs.
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How to reduce the cost of replacing Baltimore’s Key Bridge
Congress should waive costly federal regulations to help ensure that taxpayer dollars are not wasted and construction is completed in a timely fashion.
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California considers more regulatory roadblocks for automated vehicles
California’s increasingly hostile regulatory and business climate has already caused several autonomous vehicle developers to move testing and planned deployments to other states.
