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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Previous editions of this newsletter are below and Reason's transportation research is here.
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Surface Transportation News: The Postal Service’s Electric Truck Problem, Traffic Bottlenecks Aren’t Being Fixed, and More
Plus: Transit options for the Bay Area, Maryland's managed lanes moving forward, exempting electric vehicles from congestion pricing, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More
Plus: Making sense of highway fatality data during the COVID-19 pandemic, green bonds for transit, separate lanes for automated vehicles, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Claims of Highway Boondoggles, Federal Transit Policy, and More
Plus: President-elect Biden may face a truck vs. rail dilemma, toll road traffic recovery estimates, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Annual Highway Report Rankings, Concerns About Electric Vehicles, and More
Plus: Replacing obsolete interstate bridges, how to establish the safety of automated vehicles, trucks and mileage-based user fees, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Challenges to Managed Lanes, Milestone for Self-Driving Cars, and More
Plus: Implications of remote work for transportation, feasibility of hydrogen fuel-cell trucks, another BRT project set to underperform, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Priced Managed Lanes, Nationwide Electronic Tolling Pass, and More
Plus: The feasibility of hydrogen fuel-cell trucks, four decades of railroad deregulation, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Toll Roads Study, How the Pandemic Changes Infrastructure Planning, and More
Plus: Electric vehicles’ battery problems, dedicated lanes for autonomous vehicles, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Diverting Gas Taxes to Amtrak, Toll Road Traffic Recovering, Hyperloop and More
Plus: The fiscal impact of automated vehicles, a poll on gas taxes and mileage fees, a ruling on availability payments being debt, and more.
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Surface Transportation News: Coronavirus and Traffic Congestion, Hyperloop Feasibility, and More
Plus: The collision ahead for electric trucks and infrastructure, testing mileage-based user fees, concerned scientists vs. ride-hailing, and more.