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  • Surface Transportation News: President Biden’s Jobs Plan, New Transportation Finance and Public-Private Partnership Reports
    Surface Transportation News: President Biden’s Jobs Plan, New Transportation Finance and Public-Private Partnership Reports

    New reports show why U.S. lags in infrastructure finance and public private partnerships, prospects for autonomous vehicle legislation in Congress, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    June 7, 2021

  • Surface Transportation News: Losing the User-Pays Principle, Biden’s Broadband Plan and More
    Surface Transportation News: Losing the User-Pays Principle, Biden’s Broadband Plan and More

    Plus: FHWA approves electric vehicle charging at rest areas, the Amtrak-freight rail conflict, diverting toll revenues away from toll roads, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    May 12, 2021

  • Surface Transportation News: Commercial Services on Interstate Highways, Mileage Fees, Urban Transit After COVID-19, and More
    Surface Transportation News: Commercial Services on Interstate Highways, Mileage Fees, Urban Transit After COVID-19, and More

    Plus: What we don’t know about per-mile highway charges, overblown concerns about impact of automation on trucking jobs, monorail projects proposed, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    April 8, 2021

  • Surface Transportation News: The Postal Service’s Electric Truck Problem, Traffic Bottlenecks Aren’t Being Fixed, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    March 4, 2021

  • Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    February 9, 2021

  • Surface Transportation News: Claims of Highway Boondoggles, Federal Transit Policy, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    January 11, 2021

  • Surface Transportation News: Annual Highway Report Rankings, Concerns About Electric Vehicles, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    December 3, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Challenges to Managed Lanes, Milestone for Self-Driving Cars, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    November 6, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Priced Managed Lanes, Nationwide Electronic Tolling Pass, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    October 14, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Toll Roads Study, How the Pandemic Changes Infrastructure Planning, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    September 10, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Diverting Gas Taxes to Amtrak, Toll Road Traffic Recovering, Hyperloop and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    August 11, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Coronavirus and Traffic Congestion, Hyperloop Feasibility, and More
    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.

    By Robert Poole
    July 14, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: High-Speed Rail Proposal, Infrastructure Stimulus, and More
    Surface Transportation News: High-Speed Rail Proposal, Infrastructure Stimulus, and More

    Plus: How coronavirus is impacting automated vehicle development, private financing infrastructure trends, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    June 4, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Improving I-35 in Texas, Opening Up Interstate Rest Areas, and More
    Surface Transportation News: Improving I-35 in Texas, Opening Up Interstate Rest Areas, and More

    Plus: Calls for New Jersey to further subsidize transit, CAFE and SAFE emission regulations, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    May 7, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Infrastructure Stimulus Bill, Highway Investment and COVID-19
    Surface Transportation News: Infrastructure Stimulus Bill, Highway Investment and COVID-19

    Plus: How COVID-19 could change transportation, how Congress could foster productive investment in highways, priced managed lanes for Chicago, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    April 9, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Alabama Tolling, Trucking Bottlenecks, and No-Fare Transit
    Surface Transportation News: Alabama Tolling, Trucking Bottlenecks, and No-Fare Transit

    Plus: support grows for putting elevated freeway replacements underground, vehicle technology, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    March 5, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: Managed Lanes Are Booming, a War on Tolling, and P3 Benefits
    Surface Transportation News: Managed Lanes Are Booming, a War on Tolling, and P3 Benefits

    Plus: dueling surface transportation outlines in Congress, what Americans actually pay for highways, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    February 5, 2020

  • Surface Transportation News: New Federal Highway Report, Future of Electric Trucks, and States Turn to Tolling
    Surface Transportation News: New Federal Highway Report, Future of Electric Trucks, and States Turn to Tolling

    Plus, the difficulty getting politics out of discretionary infrastructure grants, public-private partnership questions in Michigan, and more.

    By Robert Poole
    January 8, 2020

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