Policy Studies

23rd Annual Highway Report

Ranking each state's highway system in 11 categories, including highway spending, pavement and bridge conditions, traffic congestion, and fatality rates.

Policy Study by M. Gregory Fields, Baruch Feigenbaum and Spence Purnell February 8, 2018

Providing Electronic Toll Collection to the Unbanked and Underbanked

Providing one or more user-friendly tolling options for the unbanked and underbanked is important to ensure economic inclusion for everyone.

Policy Brief by Daryl Fleming August 10, 2021

Florida Toll Agencies Should Not Be Consolidated

OOCEA and THEA need to become fully independent, self-supporting local toll authorities, like MDX

Policy Study by Daryl Fleming and Robert Poole January 30, 2012

Dispelling the Myths: Toll and Fuel Tax Collection Costs in the 21st Century

The time to embrace electronic tolls as a primary source of highway funding is now

Policy Study by Daryl Fleming and Robert Poole November 27, 2012

Replacing Amtrak

A Blueprint for Sustainable Passenger Rail Service

Policy Study by Joseph Vranich October 1, 1997

The California High-Speed Rail Proposal: A Due Diligence Report

Policy Study 370

Policy Study by Joseph Vranich, Wendell Cox and Adrian Moore September 1, 2008

California High-Speed Rail: An Updated Due Diligence Report

The California high-speed rail project cannot be delivered at the cost promised to taxpayers, is based upon a business plan incapable of delivering on its legal requirements and is justified by proponents based upon unachievable benefits

Policy Study by Joseph Vranich, Wendell Cox and Adrian Moore April 11, 2013

High Occupancy Toll Lanes

Phasing in Congestion Pricing a Lane at a Time

Policy Study by Gordon J. Fielding and Daniel B. Klein November 1, 1993

Ensuring Productive Investment in Transportation Infrastructure

Policy Study by Daniel L. Lewis June 1, 1993

Standardizing Electronic Toll Collection

Policy Study by James V. Halloran III September 1, 1992

Managing Transportation Demand

Markets Versus Mandates

Policy Study by Genevieve Giuliano and Martin Wachs September 1, 1992

Commuting, Congestion, and Pollution

The Employer Paid Parking Connection

Policy Study by Donald C. Shoup and Richard W. Willson September 1, 1992

Perestroika for U.S. Highways

A Bold New Policy for Managing Roads for a Free Society

Policy Study by Gabriel Roth November 1, 1990

Western Water Wars

Efforts to Take Over San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy Systems

Policy Brief by Brian Browne August 1, 2004

Revisiting the Public Interest in Private Water

Policy Brief by Don S. Evans May 1, 2003

Preparing for the Storm

Preserving Water Resources with Stormwater Utilities

Policy Study by Barrett P. Walker January 1, 2001

Rivers Among Us

Local Watershed Preservation and Resource

Policy Study by Michael Harrington and Christopher A. Hartwell October 1, 1999

Restructuring America’s Water Industry

Comparing Investor Owned and Government Water Systems

Policy Study by Kathy Neal, Patrick J. Maloney, Jonas A. Marson and Tamer E. Francis January 1, 1996