Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletters Archive

Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletters

Reason Foundation's Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole analyzes the latest news on major transportation projects, infrastructure financing, solutions for traffic congestion, toll lanes, mass transit and more.

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Surface Transportation News: Will hydrogen fuel replace fossil fuel in vehicles?

Plus: New York to proceed with transit tax, a major change in environmental law, and more.

By Robert Poole
December 4, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Fresh thinking about vehicle miles of travel

Plus: voters approved transportation funding across the country, asset concessions, mileage-based user fees, and more.

By Robert Poole
November 14, 2024
Surface Transportation News: How much does new highway capacity ‘induce’ demand?

Plus: New data on automated vehicle safety, Key Bridge replacement funding update, and more.

By Robert Poole
October 7, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Questions about the Key Bridge replacement

Plus: The problem with revenue-maximizing managed lanes, Stockholm's congestion tax, RIP Kenneth Orski, and more.

By Robert Poole
September 10, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Breakthrough study on environmental litigation

Plus, road user charges, electric vehicle market struggles, and more.

By Robert Poole
August 7, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Reforming environmental litigation, congestion pricing debacle

Plus: Traffic congestion is back in a big way.

By Robert Poole
July 10, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Equity in roadway user charges

Plus: A primer on pro-growth, limited-government federal transportation policy and more.

By Robert Poole
June 10, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Trends in infrastructure finance and public-private partnerships

Plus: Mileage-based user fees proposal, California's locomotive emissions regulation misfire, and more.

By Robert Poole
May 7, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Lessons from the Maryland Key Bridge collapse

Plus: Texas plans takeover of P3 toll project in Houston, the real challenge facing EPA's new electric vehicle regulation, and more.

By Robert Poole
April 5, 2024
Surface Transportation News: The questionable future of the Highway Trust Fund

Plus: Hybrids vs. battery-electric vehicles, aerial trams, Texas tolling, and more.

By Robert Poole
March 11, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Louisiana I-10 bridge P3 approved, after all

Plus: A case for hybrid vehicles, new approaches to express lanes enforcement, and more.

By Robert Poole
February 13, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Trucking research spotlights parking and EV charging needs

Plus: Another hyperloop startup calls it quits, the enduring popularity of cars in the U.S., and more.

By Robert Poole
January 16, 2024
Surface Transportation News: Louisiana’s decreasing fuel tax revenue

Plus: Truckers and mileage fees, electric vehicle trends, and transportation sector impacted by trade wars.

By Robert Poole
December 14, 2023
Surface Transportation News: Replacing 75,000 deficient bridges in America

The U.S. Department of Transportation's 2023 National Bridge Inventory identifies 222,000 bridges needing significant repair or replacement. Among them are 75,000 bridges at or beyond their useful lives.

By Robert Poole
November 7, 2023
Surface Transportation News: Mileage fees, electric vehicles and commuting patterns

Plus: Florida Brightline opens, research about so-called Lexus Lanes, and more.

By Robert Poole
October 9, 2023
Surface Transportation News: Reducing car travel, Maryland express lanes, and more

Plus: What electric vehicle chargers will cost America, Amtrak's costly climate alternative, and more.

By Robert Poole
September 12, 2023
Surface Transportation News: Louisiana bridge P3 faces trucking opposition, intercity bus service comeback, and more

Plus: The role of local governments with automated vehicles, caution for high-speed rail project, and more.

By Robert Poole
August 14, 2023
Surface Transportation News: Research on driving and transit, automated vehicle progress, and more

Plus: Urban containment brings unaffordable housing and reduced mobility, good news on reconnecting communities, and more.

By Robert Poole
July 7, 2023