Robert Poole
Director of Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation
Robert Poole is director of transportation policy and Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow at Reason Foundation.
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Giving Unbanked Drivers a Fair, Convenient Way to Pay Tolls at the Lowest Rates
These new programs are win-win solutions for unbanked and underbanked customers, as well as the toll road operators.
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Paying for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and Rebuilding Interstates
America should be trying to address a several-trillion-dollar backlog of infrastructure needs, not maximize the amount of federal spending.
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Are They Traffic Accidents or Acts of Traffic Violence?
Over-the-top rhetoric that seeks to label accidents as acts of intentional violence isn't the path to better or safer transportation policy.
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Are Express Toll Lanes Equitable?
Study finds "lower-income drivers benefit more than higher-income drivers" per trip in variably-priced toll lanes.
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Examining the Senate’s Bipartisan Surface Transportation Bill
The biggest unanswered question remains: how will it be paid for?
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An Infrastructure Investment Strategy That Works for Democrats and Republicans
Congress could address two looming national problems: aging infrastructure and ailing public pension systems.
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How to Increase Public Pension Fund Investment in U.S. Infrastructure
Public pension systems are increasingly seeking reliable long-term investments in revenue-generating infrastructure, such as airports, seaports, and tolled roads and bridges.
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How to Pay for Rebuilding and Modernizing America’s Aging Interstates
Congress has shown little interest in addressing the need to repair and modernize America’s most important highways.
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Why Texas Conservatives Should Support Private Investment in Transportation
Private investment funds are ready, willing, and able to invest in U.S. infrastructure.
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How to Effectively Fund Infrastructure Projects in the United States
Open the door to hundreds of billions in private capital from investors like public pension funds. That will help build infrastructure back better.
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The Beltway, I-270 Toll Projects Protect Taxpayers In Ways the Purple Line Deal Did Not
Maryland legislation could cause private infrastructure funds to shift their focus—and much-needed money for transportation megaprojects— to other states.
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The Basic Disconnect Emerging In U.S. Highway Policy
Planning the next-generation highway and transit systems must take into account the transition to electric and automated vehicles.
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Return the Highway Trust Fund to its Original Users-Pay/Users-Benefit Principle.
Virtually all of the so-called shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund is due to Congress spending money on non-highway programs.
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Defending the Equity Implications of Priced Managed Lanes
There is new empirical evidence that low-income users benefit significantly from priced managed lanes.
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Should Every Road Be a Complete Street?
Part five of Reason's Debatable Ideas series examines if complete streets are compatible with the high-speed, multi-modal mobility that major urban arterials are supposed to provide.
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Debatable Ideas: Examining Key Transportation Issues, Myths and Misconceptions
In this series, Reason's transportation policy analysts examine key infrastructure issues, including common myths and misconceptions found in today's policy debates.
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Can Increasing Highway Capacity Be Effective?
In part two, Reason's Debatable Ideas series examines claims about the induced demand and the so-called "iron law of freeway congestion."
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How to Make Public-Private Partnerships Part of a Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Those hoping for a major infrastructure bill that expands the country's use of public-private partnerships (P3s) know it will require the next transportation bill to be truly bipartisan.