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  • The Transportation Advantages Of Dispersed City Structures Compared To Central Business District-Focused City Structures
    The Transportation Advantages Of Dispersed City Structures Compared To Central Business District-Focused City Structures

    The reasons for the evolution from central business district-focused, hub-and-spoke city structures to dispersed grid pattern structures.

    By Phil Hayward
    May 18, 2018

  • The Economic Problems Caused By Constraining Urban Growth
    The Economic Problems Caused By Constraining Urban Growth

    Urban growth boundaries effectively exert an extremely regressive tax upon cities, imposing far greater everyday costs on young or low-income residents, and first-time home buyers.

    By Phil Hayward
    May 18, 2018

  • Evaluating Solutions for Austin’s Billion Dollar Pension Crisis
    Evaluating Solutions for Austin’s Billion Dollar Pension Crisis

    COAERS’s fiscal deterioration is evident, and the causes are many, such as subpar investment returns, failing to properly anticipate how long workers would stay in the system, and mortality assumptions.

    By Leonard Gilroy, Anthony Randazzo, Daniel Takash and James Quintero
    May 1, 2018

  • Driver’s License Suspension Reform: The Right Road For Michigan
    Driver’s License Suspension Reform: The Right Road For Michigan

    Michigan should narrow the type of offenses that can result in a driver’s license suspension to traffic safety crimes and end its draconian fines and fees.

    By James Craven
    April 24, 2018

  • Voluntary Energy Standards: ISO 50001 and the Superior Energy Standard
    Voluntary Energy Standards: ISO 50001 and the Superior Energy Standard

    The extremely small number of certified sites is evidence that either the standards are not suitable for the vast majority of U.S. companies, or that the way they have been promoted is unsuitable.

    By Krisztina Pusok and Julian Morris
    April 4, 2018

  • The Effect Of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards On Consumers
    The Effect Of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards On Consumers

    CAFE standards distort manufacturers’ incentives, forcing them to produce new vehicles with lower gas consumption than would be preferred by consumers.

    By Julian Morris
    April 1, 2018

  • The New Workforce And How Transportation Planning And Policy Can Prepare For Them
    The New Workforce And How Transportation Planning And Policy Can Prepare For Them

    Ten defining trends that should inform transportation policy and provide key approaches to transportation strategies.

    By Alan Pisarski
    March 30, 2018

  • Can Interstate Tolling Be Politically Feasible?
    Can Interstate Tolling Be Politically Feasible?

    States can use toll revenue to modernize and update Interstate highways if the program puts the interest of highway users—motorists and truckers—first.

    By Robert Poole
    March 19, 2018

  • Express Transit Lanes for Toll Roads
    Express Transit Lanes for Toll Roads

    Express bus service combined with variable pricing in a new policy framework aimed at achieving significant, sustainable reductions in congestion in both the general lanes and the inside-shoulder lane.

    By Robert Poole
    September 29, 2017

  • A Bet Gone Bad: How the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act Harms Consumers, States and Sports
    A Bet Gone Bad: How the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act Harms Consumers, States and Sports

    By Julian Morris and Guy Bentley
    August 31, 2017

  • CAFE and ZEV Standards: Environmental Effects and Alternatives
    CAFE and ZEV Standards: Environmental Effects and Alternatives

    Requiring manufacturers to comply with fuel economy standards, rather than using a more cost-effective alternative policy tool to achieve the same goals, likely harms the environment.

    By Julian Morris and Arthur Wardle
    August 3, 2017

  • Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges for U.S. Marine Aquaculture Development
    Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges for U.S. Marine Aquaculture Development

    Aquaculture already produces half of the seafood that humans consume and that percentage continues to rise.

    By Julian Morris and Arthur Wardle
    April 6, 2017

  • Examining the Inspector General’s Report on Private Prisons
    Examining the Inspector General’s Report on Private Prisons

    With Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-opening the door to private prisons, the agencies involved should look to improve monitoring and oversight in private prisons.

    March 23, 2017

  • Why Florida Needs a Safety Valve to Prevent Excessively Harsh Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenses
    Why Florida Needs a Safety Valve to Prevent Excessively Harsh Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenses

    Extending a safety valve to oxycodone and hydrocodone trafficking offenses would allow the state to better prioritize public safety and save millions of taxpayer dollars each year.

    By Lauren Krisai
    March 21, 2017

  • Federal Barriers to Private Capital Investment in U.S. Infrastructure
    Federal Barriers to Private Capital Investment in U.S. Infrastructure

    Private sector can help modernize and improve our roads and bridges

    By Robert Poole
    January 26, 2017

  • Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in State Government
    Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in State Government

    State Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2016

    By Leonard Gilroy
    December 28, 2016

  • Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
    Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections

    Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2016

    By Lauren Krisai and Leonard Gilroy
    November 21, 2016

  • America’s Debt and Deficit
    America’s Debt and Deficit

    Problems Still Seeking a Presidential Candidate’s Solution

    By Anthony Randazzo and Marc Joffe
    October 19, 2016

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