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.
If you would like to receive the Surface Transportation Innovations newsletter via email, please enter your email address below.
Previous editions of this newsletter are below and Reason's transportation research is here.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Surface Transportation News: Breakthrough study on environmental litigation
Plus, road user charges, electric vehicle market struggles, and more.
-
Surface Transportation News: Reforming environmental litigation, congestion pricing debacle
Plus: Traffic congestion is back in a big way.
-
Surface Transportation News: Equity in roadway user charges
Plus: A primer on pro-growth, limited-government federal transportation policy and more.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Surface Transportation News: The questionable future of the Highway Trust Fund
Plus: Hybrids vs. battery-electric vehicles, aerial trams, Texas tolling, and more.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Surface Transportation News: Louisiana’s decreasing fuel tax revenue
Plus: Truckers and mileage fees, electric vehicle trends, and transportation sector impacted by trade wars.
-
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.
-
Surface Transportation News: Mileage fees, electric vehicles and commuting patterns
Plus: Florida Brightline opens, research about so-called Lexus Lanes, and more.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.