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Surface Transportation Innovations #69
Cash-for-clunkers, CO2 and transportation and transit capital costs
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Surface Transportation Innovations #68
Performance-based transportation, targeting vehicle miles traveled, Obama and the Beach Boys
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Surface Transportation Innovations #67
Topics include: bills to curtail toll road PPPs; caution on economic impact studies; carbon caps; tunnels to somewhere; buses vs. inter-city rail; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations #66
Topics include: protecting the public interest in public-private partnership toll road deals; fresh thinking on highway design; role for tolling ; automating HOT lanes enforcement; greenhouse gas regulation; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations #65
Topics include: VMT charge vs. VMT tax; PPPs and the stimulus; public sector comparator models; inter-city high-speed rail; California's new PPP legislation; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations #64
Topics include:Bridges to Somewhere; The "Foreign Companies" Issue; Infrastructure Report Card; Sidewalks and Bikeways; Truck Toll Lanes;
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Surface Transportation Innovations #63
Topics include: the stimulus bill and PPPs; transit investment; Texas commission charting course for PPPs; getting rid of cash tolling; fixing America's bridges; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 62
Topics include: transportation spending and economic stimulus; new models for city parking; danger signs on electric cars; new evidence on the cost of congestion; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 61
Topics include: infrastructure funds alive and well; comparing modes on energy and emissions; new Reason book on mobility; progress on truck toll lanes; clean diesel locomotives; Caltrans rapid repair; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 60
Topics include: creating a HOT Network while minimizing capital outlays; megaprojects cut congestion, add economic value; rethinking the "costs of sprawl"; unjustified exemptions from gas taxes and tolls; centralized dredging fund-another "tax-and-grant"
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 59
Topics include: PPPs vs. traditional projects; PIRG on toll concessions; smart growth won't cut GHGs; bridge conditions one year later; tolling in California; tolls beat taxes in UCLA/USC study; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 58
Topics include: USDOT's reform proposal; Congress stuck in old paradigm; further thoughts on McKinsey GHG report; America's second HOT network; how motorists are responding to high gas prices; premium lanes for New Jersey Turnpike; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 57
Topics include: cost-effective greenhouse gas reduction; private-sector toll roads' cost of capital; short-sea shipping; long-range transportation planning questioned; state DOT use of contractors; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 56
Topics include: new threat to HOT lanes; Georgia DOT's truck lanes study; risky start-up toll roads; $4 gasoline's impacts; what about "mode neutrality"?; greenhouse gases and urban sprawl; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 55
Topics include: electric cars-this time for real?; toll concessions-one size does not fit all; cost of crashes vs. costs of congestion; where can toll truckways be built?; pension fund investment in toll roads; new data on toll road safety; and other news
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 54
Topics include: robust public support for tolling; HOT lanes for the U.K.; Pennsylvania Turnpike lease; gasoline prices and driver behavior; rethinking the federal surface transportation program; food and transportation; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 53
Topics include: the other national commission's interim report; the other shoe drops in Texas; strange truck lanes assessment in Georgia; busways as HOT lanes?; update on Indiana Toll Road; and other news.
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Surface Transportation Innovations # 52
Topics include: what to make of the National Commission recommendations; New Jersey confuses taxing and tolling; Seattle area ready for road pricing?; what now for Dulles Rail?; CO2 and traffic congestion; Japan's amazing highway sound walls; and other ne
