• Surface Transportation Innovations #38
    Surface Transportation Innovations #38

    Topics include: reducing congestion in Atlanta; Urban Partnership Agreements boost pricing; the power of the concession model; AAA survey supports tolls over taxes; underutilized rail rights-of-way; refining the managed lanes concept; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #37
    Surface Transportation Innovations #37

    Topics include: talking tolling with stakeholders; paying for better transportation in California; reflections on the election results; video tolling comes to America; evacuation

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #36
    Surface Transportation Innovations #36

    Topics include: Reason's new book on congestion; driving restrictions and air quality; the latest update from the guru of commuting data; two very different models of managed lanes; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #35
    Surface Transportation Innovations #35

    Topics include: Making urban highways more likeable through innovative design; Portland confronts goods-movement congestion; Brookings looks at costs and benefits of rail transit; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #34
    Surface Transportation Innovations #34

    Topics include: Reason's first Mobility Project study finds that adding capacity is key to cutting congestion; GAO study shows tolling's potential; feel-good, high cost air quality efforts; Tampa's new elevated express lanes; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #33
    Surface Transportation Innovations #33

    Topics include: why American cities don't work for transit; dueling technologies for future tolling; cleaner diesel trucks and the implications for transportation planning; feedback on the Winston/Langer paper; and quotable quotes.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #32
    Surface Transportation Innovations #32

    Topics include: Brookings' new study on highway spending vs. congestion; phasing out toll plazas; evacuations and toll roads; moderate growth projected in vehicle miles traveled; and news notes.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #31
    Surface Transportation Innovations #31

    Topics include: US DOT's new anti-congestion program; tolling key to adding highway capacity; Washington DOT congestion study recommends more lanes and pricing; debunking sprawl misconceptions; and Gabriel Roth's new book on market-based roadways.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #30
    Surface Transportation Innovations #30

    Topics include: new book on future of highways; long-term concessions in Texas; Fitch and S&P on private toll roads; sticker tags making real headway; pricing trucks at ports; gas tax contrarian; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #29
    Surface Transportation Innovations #29

    Topics include: TRB committee concludes tolls should replace fuel taxes; getting serious about traffic congestion; the future of ITS; electronic toll collection for rental cars; urban sprawl myths; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #28
    Surface Transportation Innovations #28

    Topics include: Reason's new Mobility Project; occupancy detection for HOV/HOT lanes; more HOV lane concerns; truck-only toll lanes moving forward; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #27
    Surface Transportation Innovations #27

    Topics include: telecommuting's cost-effectiveness; congestion and regional economies; PPPs for transport infrastructure; guidelines for state PPP legislation; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #26
    Surface Transportation Innovations #26

    Topics include: Reason's new Virtual Exclusive Busways study; Hudson's disappointing surface transportation report; design-build success stories; truck congestion pricing in L.A.; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #25
    Surface Transportation Innovations #25

    Topics include: Atlanta's look at innovative truck toll lanes; paying for better commutes; financial community bullishness on tolling; and transportation network vulnerability.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #24
    Surface Transportation Innovations #24

    Topics include: HOV/HOT lanes safety; affordable transponders; S&P's report on public-private partnerships; public support for toll lanes; and traffic signal timing.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #23
    Surface Transportation Innovations #23

    Topics include: paying for new lane construction out of toll revenue; the continued decline of car-pooling; tolling existing free lanes; incident-related congestion; and inaccuracies in rail and road traffic forecasting.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #22
    Surface Transportation Innovations #22

    Topics include: how congestion harms urban economies; trucking re-regulation in Congress; HOV enforcement; and other breaking news stories.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations #21
    Surface Transportation Innovations #21

    Topics include: the need for tolls and public-private partnerships in California; tolling/pricing provisions in the federal transportation bill; building electronic toll collection into vehicles; new data on federal subsidies by transportation mode; and o

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