RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Puentes, June 12, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Robert Puentes calls on the federal government to empower major metropolitan areas by giving them direct transportation funding and the flexibility to make unbiased decisions between different modes of transportation. The federal government can then maximize performance by committing itself (and the recipients of federal funds) to an evidence-based, outcome driven, and benchmarked way of doing business. Read More
AUDIO
June 12, 2008
This panel discussed links among housing, transportation, and climate change goals, with particular attention to the roles of the federal government in re-framing the affordability issue and fostering sustainable metropolitan growth.
AUDIO
June 12, 2008
This session explored a new plan to overhaul U.S. transportation policy to meet the needs of the 21st century economy. This included a discussion of the key economic, environmental challenges facing metro areas, the flaws in the current federal policy response and recommendations for a new, unified, and competitive vision for federal transportation policy.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Andrea Sarzynski, Marilyn A. Brown and Frank Southworth, May 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Brookings released a report that ranks the carbon footprint of the nation’s top 100 metropolitan areas. For the first time, the report quantifies a metropolitan area’s carbon footprint based upon carbon emissions from highway transportation and residential energy consumption and lists metropolitan areas by total metric tons of carbon emissions per capita in 2005. The report offers recommendations on how the federal government should step up its support of metropolitan efforts to shrink their carbon footprints. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David B. Sandalow, May 22, 2008, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
As gasoline prices continue to set new records, David Sandalow recently testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the national security threats posed by rising oil prices. Drawing from his book Freedom from Oil, Sandalow emphasized the potential for plug-in electric vehicles to help solve the problem.” Read More
BOOK
Clifford Winston and Gines de Rus, May 01, 2008
International transportation experts compare and contrast how different nations have managed their airports and air traffic control systems and how well they are meeting the needs of their people. Read More
VIDEO
Mary Peters, Robert Puentes, Clifford Winston and Jason Bordoff, April 28, 2008
The nation’s transportation network is critical to America's commerce and our way of life. Population shifts, congestion and infrastructure all challenge its efficiency. The Brookings Institution’s Opportunity 08 project examined the issue of transportation in America in a forum featuring U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and a panel of Brookings experts.
PAST EVENT
Monday, April 28, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
Opportunity 08 hosted U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters for a discussion of America's transportation infrastructure. Secretary Peters focused on the challenges facing the nation’s transportation network, and how local, state and national leaders can take advantage of new technology and approaches to unleash a new wave of transportation investments in this country. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, April 24, 2008, House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force
This fall the United States will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 and, Clifford Winston and Steven Morrison argue, the nation has reason to celebrate because airline deregulation has benefited both travelers and carriers. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David F. Garrison, Marni D. Allen, Margery Austin Turner, Jennifer Comey, Barika X. Williams, Elizabeth Guernsey, Mary Filardo, Nancy Huvendick and Ping Sung, April 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution
The District of Columbia is struggling to attract and retain families with children. Most newcomers are singles and childless couples. The total number of school-age children has declined slightly. Many of the city’s schools suffer from long-standing physical, management and academic problems. The availability of quality public schools, near affordable family-friendly housing, will help determine the city’s success. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall, April 19, 2008, The Wall Street Journal
Flights on U.S. airlines have never been more crowded, but despite recent reports, Clifford Winston and Robert Crandall argue, U.S. airlines have never been safer. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason E. Bordoff and Pascal J. Noel, April 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Insurance costs that vary with miles driven could lower those miles by 8 percent, a new Hamilton Project report finds, yielding social benefits of $51.5 billion from reduced congestion and accidents. The authors urge pay-as-you-drive auto insurance so that low-mileage drivers no longer subsidize high-mileage drivers. Read More
VIDEO
Robert W. Crandall and Martha Raddatz, April 16, 2008
Few industries remain subject to classic economic regulation in the United States. Senior Fellow Robert Crandall says the next president should help remove some of the controls left on these industries in order to help promote economic expansion.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Puentes, April 09, 2008, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
During this time of economic uncertainty, environmental anxiety and household stress the nation must get the most out of its largest discretionary domestic program—transportation. In recent testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Robert Puentes recommends the federal government adopt a three-pronged strategy to lead in certain areas, empower states and metropolitan areas in others and maximize performance across the nation. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Washington, DC
Brookings Urban Markets Initiative joined with the Center for Neighborhood Technology in a demonstration of their new interactive web tool that calculates the cost of housing and transportation by neighborhood in 52 metropolitan areas across the United States. Read More