Category Archives: Transportation

Subsidies for Electric Cars, Buses and Charging Will Accompany TCI’s Taxes and Rationing

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

The ultimate goal of the Transportation and Climate Initiative with its tax and rationing scheme is to eliminate fossil fuels for transportation and get us into electric vehicles.  That is something advocates have admitted and critics have pointed out.  While Virginia TCI participation is on … Continue reading →

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Carbon Taxes, Gasoline Rationing Remain Unpopular Policies

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

The Transportation and Climate Initiative plan to tax and ration motor fuels suffered a major setback just before Christmas, when eight of the eleven states considering it decided not to move forward in 2021. Less than two weeks earlier, advocates … Continue reading →

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Five Steps to Guide Transportation Planning and Spending During the Pandemic

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Alan Pisarki

This analysis discusses a five-step approach to understanding and addressing the new challenges that preceded, and now are intensified by, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic events of this year. The way that we react to them will be crucial to … Continue reading →

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New Data Shows Transit Is Changing

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Baruch Feigenbaum

Transit agencies are in crisis mode. The Covid-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders across the country led to ridership declines of up to 95%. But even before this crisis, transit agencies were losing ridership. Recently, the Center for Urban Transportation Research … Continue reading →

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Opening Up Interstate Weigh Stations and Rest Areas: A COVID-19 Side Effect

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Bob Poole

While everyone is focused on very large decreases in highway traffic, an overlooked element is the continued strength of truck traffic. Indeed, America’s truckers are among the unsung heroes of the pandemic, keeping goods flowing to the supermarkets, home-supply stores, … Continue reading →

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