Commentary
Mileage-fee rates could be structured to reduce congestion, harmful emissions and excessive road wear, and the enabling technology could support a range of value-added services offering greater convenience and safety for motorists, writes Keith Crane.
Report
Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies to deployed forces, but is it cost effective to use commercial, rather than organic Air Force, aircraft to supply this airlift?
Tool
An illustrated guide provides state and local decisionmakers with a high-level synopsis of mileage fee issues: policy motivations, technical options, key challenges, and emerging strategies to address those challenges.
Journal Article
This paper presents results of an assessment of the state of research on decoupling the relationship between vehicle travel and economic growth.
Commentary
Good data can inform decision makers about what really works—how best to relieve congestion and improve supply-chain connectivity to make freight transportation—and hence the U.S. economy—more competitive, write Mortimer Downey, Joseph Schofer, and Johanna Zmud.
Journal Article
Federal subsidies and policies to encourage plug-in vehicle adoption would produce more benefits at lower cost by targeting the purchase of vehicles with small battery packs.
Commentary
Our transportation future will be multi-layered and complex—bounded by transportation infrastructure that is under-funded on the one hand and ever-expanding congestion and capacity constraints on the other, writes Johanna Zmud.
Report
To inform debate on a new transportation bill being considered, the authors review the literature on the economic outcomes of highway infrastructure spending, which constitutes the largest share of federal spending on transportation infrastructure.
Report
Studies price-setting behavior in the retail gasoline industry.
News Release
The long-term efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. freight transportation system is threatened by bottlenecks, inefficient use of some parts of the infrastructure components, vulnerability to disruptions, and crucial environmental and energy concerns.
Report
Describes approaches to modernizing the U.S. freight-transportation system that require whole-system modeling, engagement of all stakeholders, and an understanding of the interdependence between local and national costs and benefits.
Report
A study of the efficient use of transportation systems with an emphasis on the effects of traffic congestion.
People
Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in aero/astro engineering, Georgia Inst of Tech; B.S. in aero/astro engineering, University of Washington
People
Analyst
Ph.D. in transport economics and behaviour modelling, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds; M.A. in industrial economics, Beijing JiaoTong University, China
People
Associate Economist
Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in economics and mathematics, University of Virginia
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