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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.
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Climate Change, Catastrophe, Regulation and the Social Cost of Carbon
Existing federal regulations predicated on a positive SCC should be re-evaluated, with the appropriate comparator being regulations that specifically address any co-benefits identified.
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Unfinished Business: Despite Dodd-Frank, Credit Rating Agencies Remain the Financial System’s Weakest Link
The lenient ratings attracted excessive mortgage finance capital that exacerbated a home price bubble—and a wider asset price bubble.
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Ranking the Best, Worst, Safest, and Most Expensive State Highway Systems — The 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Remote Air Traffic Control Towers: A Better Future for America’s Small Airports
Remote towers offer a proven alternative for the provision of air traffic services at low-activity airports.