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Aviation
Road user fees and congestion pricing
Public-private partnerships
Airport pricing
Technology
Other

Aviation

Council of Economic Advisers
Reforming the Air Traffic Control System to Promote Efficiency and Reduce Delays Exit

Road user fees and congestion pricing

AEI/Brookings Joint Center
- Differentiated Road Pricing, Express Lanes and Carpools: Exploiting Heterogeneous Preferences in Policy Design Exit
- The Effect of Government Highway Spending on Road Users’ Congestion Costs Exit

A.B. Transek
Road Pricing in Urban Areas Exit

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D., President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
An Exchange on Building U.S. Road Capacity: Part I Exit

Alex Bowerman
The Costs and Benefits of Road Pricing: Comparing Nationwide Charging with Project-Based Schemes Exit

Patrick DeCorla-Souza
- High Performance Highways Exit
- A New Road Financing System for U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Theresa Devine, NYC Independent Budget Office, Inside The Budget, No. 154
Behind the Wheel: Who Drives Into The Proposed “Congestion Zone” Exit

Federal Highway Administration
National Household Travel Survey 2007

Robert H. Frank, Cornell University
Opinion: A Sensible Solution to Thin Traffic, and One for Easing Concerns About Fairness Exit

Leonard C. Gilroy and Amy Pelletier
HOT Lanes: Frequently Asked Questions Exit

Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Road Pricing Study Exit

Fred Hiatt
The Bumpy Road to Congestion Relief Exit

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Congressional Budget Office
Congestion Pricing for Highways

Mathieu Laberge, Montreal Economic Institute
Bringing back tolls on Quebec highways Exit

Bumsoo Lee and Peter Gordon, University of Southern California
The U.S. Context for Highway Congestion Pricing Exit

David Lewis
America’s Traffic Congestion Problem: Toward a Framework for Nationwide Reform Exit

Doug MacDonald
Rice and Traffic Congestion Exit

Massachusetts Transportation Commission
Building a Sustainable Transportation Financing System Exit

Ken Orski, Innovation Briefs
- Tolling Goes Mainstream Exit
- Financing Infrastructure: Conservatives vs. Innovators Exit

Mary Peters, United States Secretary of Transportation
- Department of Transportation Activities, United States Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Transportation Infrastructure Financing, United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Budget

M. Piecyk and A.C. McKinnon, Heriot Watt University
Internalizing the External Costs of Road Freight Transport in the UK Exit

Robert W. Poole, Jr., Reason Foundation
Swedish take on congestion pricing Exit
Life in the Slow Lane Exit

Puget Sound Regional Council
Traffic Choices Study Exit

Reason Foundation
16th Annual Report on the Performance of State Highway Systems (1984–2005) Exit

Michael Replogle, Keri Funderburg, et al.  Environmental Defense
Money Out the Window.  Using Road Tolls to Cut Congestion, Protect the Environment and Boost Access for All Exit

Oregon Department of Transportation
Techniques for Assessing the Socio-Economic Effects of Vehicle Mileage Fees Exit

Peter Samuel and Robert W. Poole, Jr.
 - Leasing State Toll Roads: Frequently Asked Questions Exit
 - The Role of Tolls in Financing 21st Century Highways Exit

Ron Sims, County Executive of King County, Washington
Hearing on Transportation Challenges of Metropolitan Areas, April 9, 2008 Exit

U.K. Department for Transport
Feasibility study of road pricing in the UK Exit

University of Minnesota
Congestion Pricing in Minnesota Exit

James Whitty
Oregon's Mileage Fee Concept and Road User Fee Pilot Program. Exit

Clifford Winston, Kenneth A. Small
Making HOT Lanes Sizzle Exit

Public-private partnerships

Asheesh Advani
Passenger-Friendly Airports: Another Reason for Airport Privatization Exit

The Allen Consulting Group and the University of Melbourne
Performance of PPPs and Traditional Procurement in Australia Exit

Jeff Campbell
Toll roads 36% safer than tax roads Exit

Federal Transit Administration
Contractor Assessment Report 2007

Fitch Ratings
Global Toll Road Rating Guidelines Exit

Leonard C. Gilroy, Robert W. Poole, Jr., Peter Samuel, and Geoffrey Segal
Building New Roads Through Public-Private Partnerships: Frequently Asked Questions Exit

Steven Goldsmith
What's Left for Government to Do? Exit

J. Luis Guasch, World Bank Institute.
Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions in Latin America: Doing it Right Exit

Mathieu Laberge, Montreal Economic Institute
Tolls as a Solution for Financing the Road Network Exit

Pekka Leviakangas
Private finance of transport infrastructure projects. Value and risk analysis of a Finnish shadow toll road project Exit

Secretary Mary Peters
Toward a New Surface Transportation Economic Model

David Stokes, Leonard Gilroy, Samuel R. Staley, The Show-Me Institute
Missouri's Changing Transportation Paradigm Exit

United Kingdom Treasury
Private Finance Initiative: strengthening long-term partnerships Exit

United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe
Governance in Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development Exit

USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy
Protecting the Public Interest: The Role of Long-Term Concession Agreements for Providing Transportation Infrastructure Exit

Antonio Vives, et al, Inter-American Development Bank
Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public-Private Partnerships: An Application to Water Projects Exit

Airport pricing

Viggo Butler
Increasing Airport Capacity Without Increasing Airport Size Exit

Dr. George L. Donohue, Dr. Karla Hoffman. George Mason University.
Evidence that Airport Pricing Works Exit

Michael E. Levine
Congestion Pricing at New York Airports

Steven A. Morrison, Clifford Winston
Another Look at Airport Congestion Pricing Exit

Robert W. Poole, Jr.
Business Jets and ATC User Fees: Taking a Closer Look Exit
Using the Revenues from Airport Pricing Exit
Congestion Pricing for the New York Airports: Reducing Delays while Promoting Growth and Competition Exit
The Urgent Need to Reform the FAA's Air Traffic Control System Exit

Technology

M. Mitchell Waldrop
Modeling Surprise Exit

Other

Brookings Institution
Metropolitan Policy Program, Blueprint for American Prosperity
MetroNation: How U.S. Metropolitan Areas Fuel American Prosperity Exit

Urban Land Institute
Higher-Density Development - Myth and Fact Exit

Pravin Varaiya
What We’ve Learned About Highway Congestion Exit

 

 

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Last updated: 7/17/2008