Marc Scribner
Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Marc Scribner is a Senior Transportation Policy Analyst at Reason Foundation.
Scribner's work focuses on a variety of public policy issues related to transportation, land use, and urban growth, including infrastructure investment and operations, transportation safety and security, risk and regulation, privatization and public finance, urban redevelopment and property rights, and emerging transportation technologies such as automated road vehicles and unmanned aircraft systems. He frequently advises policymakers on these matters at the federal, state, and local levels.
Scribner has testified numerous times before Congress at the invitation of both Democrats and Republicans on issues including highway revenue collection, traffic congestion management, public transit productivity, freight rail regulation, airport financing, and air traffic control modernization. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Developments and Advancements in Transportation Technology Law.
He has appeared on television and radio programs in outlets such as Fox Business Network, National Public Radio, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and has also written for numerous publications, including USA Today, The Washington Post, Wired, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Forbes, and National Review. And his work has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Congressional Quarterly, Washington Monthly, POLITICO, CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, C-SPAN, and other print, television, and radio outlets.
Scribner joined Reason Foundation after more than a decade at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he was a senior fellow in transportation policy. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and philosophy from George Washington University.
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A moratorium on state laws targeting AI would safeguard innovation and interstate commerce
A federal moratorium on bills singling out artificial intelligence would help ensure that the U.S. remains fertile ground for technological growth.
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Proposed EU Space Act threatens global space commerce
Several elements of the European Union's Space Act would unduly harm international competition and uniquely disadvantage American firms.
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Expanding automated track inspection can improve rail safety
Expanding the use of automation in track inspections will increase early defect detection and reduce defects over time.
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Annual Aviation Infrastructure Report 2025
For the world overall, 45% of all passenger air traffic moves through airports with significant private investment.
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Advancing remote air traffic control tower deployment in the United States
Remote/digital tower technology is in wide use in Europe and is rapidly expanding to Asia, Canada, and the Middle East.
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Delaware Senate Bill 46 would not improve road safety by banning driverless trucks
If enacted, Delaware would become the first and only state in the country to pass a blanket, preemptive ban on driverless trucks.
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The App Store Accountability Act would undermine privacy and parental choice
The App Store Accountability Act would make age restrictions online more invasive than in any other area of daily life.
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Comments to the U.S. Department of Transportation on ensuring lawful regulation
This public comment letter was submitted to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Secretary on May 5, 2025.
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Nevada Senate Bill 395 could hinder autonomous vehicle progress
Automated vehicle technology could greatly improve road safety and efficiency. Senate Bill 395 would move Nevada in the wrong direction.
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Montana’s proposed regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles needs reform
Montana’s Senate Bill 67 attempts to provide a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles, but the proposal conflicts with best practices learned in other states.
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Montana Senate Bill 67 would stall automated vehicle progress
Montana needs a workable regulatory framework for vehicles equipped with automated driving systems. However, Senate Bill 67 has several problems.
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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.
