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  • Reducing Congestion in Lee County, Florida
    Reducing Congestion in Lee County, Florida

    Cutting traffic in one of America's fastest growing urban areas

    Policy Study by Robert Poole and Chris Swenson February 26, 2009

  • Restoring Trust In the Highway Trust Fund
    Restoring Trust In the Highway Trust Fund

    Refocusing the federal transportation program and restoring the users-pay principle to highway infrastructure

    Policy Study by Robert Poole and Adrian Moore August 3, 2010

  • Automating HOT Lanes Enforcement
    Automating HOT Lanes Enforcement

    As high-occupancy toll lanes become larger and more complex, effective enforcement becomes even more difficult

    Policy Study by Robert Poole February 16, 2011

  • Rebuilding and Modernizing Wisconsin Interstates With Toll Financing
    Rebuilding and Modernizing Wisconsin Interstates With Toll Financing

    Using tolls to ensure the timely reconstruction of the Interstates and Wisconsin's freeway system

    Policy Study by Robert Poole October 3, 2011

  • Increasing Mobility in Southeast Florida
    Increasing Mobility in Southeast Florida

    A new approach based on road pricing and bus rapid transit

    Policy Study by Robert Poole, Thomas A. Rubin and Chris Swenson March 27, 2012

  • The Case for Air Traffic Control Facility Consolidation
    The Case for Air Traffic Control Facility Consolidation

    A paradigm shift in air traffic control that will make it possible to manage air traffic from anywhere to anywhere

    Policy Study by Robert Poole April 3, 2013

  • Interstate 2.0: Modernizing the Interstate Highway System Via Toll Finance
    Interstate 2.0: Modernizing the Interstate Highway System Via Toll Finance

    The 20th-century fuel tax cannot deliver a second-generation Interstate highway system, 21st-century all-electronic tolling can

    Policy Study by Robert Poole September 12, 2013

  • Organization and Innovation in Air Traffic Control
    Organization and Innovation in Air Traffic Control

    Organizational reform is the key to a full embrace of advanced air traffic management in the United States

    Policy Study by Robert Poole January 17, 2014

  • Truck-Friendly Tolls for 21st Century Interstates
    Truck-Friendly Tolls for 21st Century Interstates

    How to modernize the Interstate highway system and address the trucking industry's concerns about tolling

    Policy Study by Robert Poole July 22, 2015

  • Enhanced Transit and Managed Arterials: A Win-Win Combination
    Enhanced Transit and Managed Arterials: A Win-Win Combination

    Enhanced bus is more flexible than fixed-rail transit, and can offer comparable service levels when operated either on exclusive rights of way or on virtually exclusive rights of way that are kept uncongested by variable pricing.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole October 20, 2016

  • Reinventing the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
    Reinventing the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

    Policy Study by Robert Poole February 2, 2017

  • Availability Payment or Revenue-Risk Public-Private Partnership Concessions? Pros and Cons for Highway Infrastructure
    Availability Payment or Revenue-Risk Public-Private Partnership Concessions? Pros and Cons for Highway Infrastructure

    While revenue-risk concessions are more advantageous and transfer more risk, a U.S. role for highway availability payment concession remains.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole November 2, 2017

  • Using Asset Recycling To Rebuild America’s Infrastructure
    Using Asset Recycling To Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

    Study finds $720 billion to $885 billion could be generated for infrastructure investment by public-private partnership leases for existing U.S. infrastructure.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole November 14, 2018

  • The Case for Toll-Financed Interstate Replacement
    The Case for Toll-Financed Interstate Replacement

    Addressing both the need to rebuild Interstates and the need to begin the transition from per-gallon fuel taxes to per-mile highway user charges.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole April 4, 2019

  • Why Governments Should Lease Their Toll Roads
    Why Governments Should Lease Their Toll Roads

    The nine states studied here would have significant net proceeds from leasing their toll road systems via long-term public-private partnerships—even after paying off outstanding tax-exempt toll road bonds.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole August 25, 2020

  • Study: Leasing 31 U.S. airports would generate $131 billion to fund other infrastructure and pay debt
    Study: Leasing 31 U.S. airports would generate $131 billion to fund other infrastructure and pay debt

    This study estimates the market value of 31 large and medium U.S. airports as $131 billion in total, including Los Angeles International ($17.8 billion), San Francisco International ($11.9 billion), and Dallas/Ft. Worth International ($11.9 billion).

    Policy Study by Robert Poole August 26, 2021

  • Air traffic control as a public utility
    Air traffic control as a public utility

    The case for changing the way air traffic control is provided in the United States.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole June 15, 2023

  • Louisiana needs to transition from per-gallon gas taxes to per-mile user fees
    Louisiana needs to transition from per-gallon gas taxes to per-mile user fees

    With a mid-level shift to electric vehicles, Louisiana could anticipate annual fuel tax revenue would be reduced by $250 million by 2040 and over $325 million by 2050.

    Policy Study by Robert Poole December 14, 2023

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