Transportation analysts and the public decision-makers they support are confronted with a broad range of analytical tools for estimating the economic impacts of improvements to transportation networks. Many of the available models operate at different scales and have distinctly different...

Sometime in 2010 or 2011, Congress expects to decide how to spend the $250 billion or more of federal gas taxes and other highway user fees that will be collected over the next six years. The process of doing so is called surface transportation reauthorization. A major point of contention in...

Randal O'Toole reviews Robert Bruegmann's SPRAWL. Richard Gordon reviews Jan Kalicki and David Goldwyn's ENERGY AND SECURITY. George Leef reviews Joseph Vranich's END OF THE LINE. Richard Gordon reviews James Griffin and Stephen Puller's ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION

The renationalisation of rail infrastructure has not been a success. Network Rail has been plagued by crisis after crisis, with major projects hit by delays, mismanagement and large cost overruns. Its problems echo those suffered by the inefficient nationalised industries of the post-war period....

Chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to increase government infrastructure spending to counteract any economic slowdown (demand management) and to improve the productive potential of the economy (supplyside reform). Yet the ‘Keynesian’ function of infrastructure spending ignores the...

To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks, regional economies need to be rebalanced toward regional demand- and trade-driven growth through increased regional connectivity. The effectiveness of connectivity depends on the quality of hard and soft...

As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the...

For the last decade the Transport and Logistics Centre (TALC) has been facilitating, designing, developing and trialling various national, State and local programmes in the field of capability building in transport and logistics. From the experiences of TALC has emerged an innovative approach to...

The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns on various forms of transportation create an opportunity to review the successes and failures of federal transport policies before Congress reauthorizes federal highway and transit programs. After a one‐​year extension...