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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Removing Palmetto Express Lanes and Banning Tolls Would Hurt Miami-Dade
If the bill to abolish the express lanes were enacted, the result would be more traffic congestion.
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Priced Express Lanes Are a Proven Way to Reduce Highway Congestion
Orange County was the site of the world’s first priced express lanes in 1995. With sensible planning, it could also be first in the nation with a seamless network of priced express lanes.
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Remembering Shirley Ybarra
The former Virginia secretary of transportation and Reason policy analyst made many many important impacts on the transportation world.
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Maryland and Virginia’s Congestion-Busting Mega-Project
The governors of Maryland and Virginia announced an agreement to rebuild the American Legion Bridge, enabling the completion of America’s largest region-wide network of express toll lanes.
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Why Highway Tolls Align With Conservative Principles
When some conservatives oppose tolls and investor-managed highways as contrary to conservative principles, in effect they prefer the existing model of tax-funded, state-owned enterprises.
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Examining Claims About Induced Demand, Adding Road Capacity and Traffic Congestion
The “iron law of roadway congestion” isn’t.
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New Study Calls for Major Rethinking and Reorganization of U.S. Space Policy
The plan would shift NASA’s role to primarily research and exploration, while enabling the private sector to develop a viable space industry.
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Finding the Money to Fix and Modernize Southern California’s Interstates
Issuing long-term revenue bonds backed solely by toll revenues would generate the money for interstate reconstruction projects in major cities like Los Angeles to get underway now.
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Miami Toll Legislation Could Hurt State Highway Funding
Those who favor cutting back on tolling ignore a looming threat to highway funding.
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Rebuilding and Modernizing Interstates Means Changing the Way We Pay For Them
Everyone warns America’s highways are crumbling. The best way to save them is shifting from gas taxes to per mile charges.
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How to Pay for the Road and Highway Projects Louisiana Needs
Public-private partnerships are especially well-suited to transportation megaprojects.
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Raising Money for Southern Nevada Infrastructure Improvements
Clark County, Nevada, is an American success story. But the metro area's infrastructure has failed to keep pace.
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Estimated Values Of Selected U.S. State and Local Infrastructure Assets
There are numerous opportunities for asset recycling by U.S. cities, counties and states.
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How to Meet Southern California’s Large and Expensive Infrastructure Needs
California’s infrastructure needs are large and expensive enough that it will take novel ideas to address them
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How to Make Highways and Airports Pay
State and local governments are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in aging but revenue-generating infrastructure assets.
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The Timeline for Self-Driving Cars and Shared Mobility May Take Longer Than We Think
Examining the long-term future of automated vehicles, electric vehicles and shared mobility.
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Rethinking California’s Highways as Public Utilities
It’s not hard to see that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we fund and manage highways.
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Viewing Managed Lanes as Business Entities Is Key to Funding Major Highway Projects
Maximizing revenue, consistent with public-sector traffic management and throughput goals, will be essential to financing these megaprojects.