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: Examining public-private partnerships, private sector infrastructure investment

Plus: Examining the year in infrastructure funding, fixing the Highway Trust Fund, and more.

By Robert Poole
June 9, 2025
Surface Transportation News: Can the Department of Transportation terminate New York’s cordon pricing program?

Plus: A study on transit and climate change, Reason's Annual Highway Report rankings, and more.

By Robert Poole
May 6, 2025
Surface Transportation News: How to replace gas taxes with mileage-based user fees

Plus: Assessing U.S. transportation's impact on greenhouse gas emissions, NTSB rips Maryland over Key Bridge collapse, and more.

By Robert Poole
April 10, 2025
Surface Transportation News: Big news on environmental permitting

Plus: Addressing transit productivity, the California High-Speed Rail saga continues, and more.

By Robert Poole
March 11, 2025
Surface Transportation News: Rethinking the Department of Transportation’s role

Plus: INRIX report on global traffic congestion, states bills to ban driverless vehicles, and more.

By Robert Poole
February 10, 2025
Surface Transportation News: Congestion is back, for trucks as well as cars

Plus: Addressing diversion from toll roads and bridges, the latest electric vehicles data, and more.

By Robert Poole
January 9, 2025
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