• Surface Transportation Innovations #67
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations # 51
    Surface Transportation Innovations # 51

    Topics include: Oregon's mileage fee pilot program; undercutting future SoCal HOT lanes; the"foreign investment" controversy; new PPP coalition launched; Hutchison amendment threatens HOT lanes; technology responses to road pricing; and other news.

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  • Surface Transportation Innovations # 50
    Surface Transportation Innovations # 50

    Topics include: an economist's look at urban transportation policy; Miami toll truckway proposed to ease port traffic congestion; low-cost bus lines; 10th anniversary of Toronto's 407ETR; what if there were "green" cars?; last "6320" toll road going priva

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