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Save to My PortfolioTransportation and the Economy

Monday, April 28, 2008
Washington, DC

Ralph AlswangOpportunity 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

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Save to My PortfolioTransportation and the Economy

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.

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe State of Airline Competition and Prospective Mergers

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

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Save to My PortfolioAirlines are Safer than Ever

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

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Save to My PortfolioEasing the Traffic Jam through Congestion Pricing

Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Washington, DC

Reuters/Lucy NicholsonBrookings’ Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program hosted a roundtable discussion on the merits and potential barriers to congestion pricing as a tool for combating urban gridlock. Brookings Fellow Robert Puentes provided an overview of the national transportation landscape and David Lewis, senior vice president with HDR Decision Economics, discussed his newly proposal for a coordinated federal-state policy framework for congestion pricing. A panel of experts discussed the proposal in the context of the current national debate. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioVisioning Transportation’s Future: SAFETEA-LU Reauthorization and Beyond

Robert Puentes, February 05, 2008, The Brookings Institution

As part of this session at the National Association of Regional Councils annual meeting in Washington, DC, Robert Puentes discusses urgency of transportation accessibility, connectivity, and mobility issues that affecting the prosperity and vitality of the nation and its metropolitan areas. He highlights several critical flaws in current U.S. transportation policy today and offers a broad three-part framework for a new transportation agenda. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioAmerica’s Infrastructure: Ramping Up or Crashing Down

Bruce Katz, Christopher Geissler and Robert Puentes, January 2008, The Brookings Institution

America’s Infrastructure: Ramping Up or Crashing DownAmerica’s bridges, roads, rails and web of channel communications form the connective tissue that we call infrastructure. When these underpinnings start to crumble, so does the economic competitiveness of the nation. The third Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Competitiveness explored the challenges and opportunities for new infrastructure investment. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioAmerica’s Infrastructure: Ramping Up or Crashing Down

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Washington, DC

Highway Traffic in Bay Area Due to BART StrikeExperts on transportation and competitiveness policy explored the challenges and opportunities for new infrastructure investment. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioNot So fast: Key Policy Considerations for Financing Transportation

Robert Puentes, October 09, 2007, The Brookings Institution

Current conversations around finance and revenue distribution dominate the discussion about transportation in the United States today. These concerns are so prevalent today that they spawned not one – but two – national commissions to investigate how the nation should approach the issue of funding transportation over the long term. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMetro Nation: How Ohio’s Cities and Metro Areas Can Drive Prosperity in the 21st Century

Bruce Katz, September 07, 2007, The Brookings Institution

At a legislative conference in Cambridge, Ohio, Bruce Katz stressed the importance of cities and metro areas to the state's overall prosperity. Acknowledging the decline of Ohio's older industrial cities, Katz noted the area's many assets and argued for a focus on innovation, human capital, infrastructure, and quality communities as means to revitalize the region. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Shape of Metropolitan Growth: How Policy Tools Affect Growth Patterns in Seattle and Orlando

Chris Williamson, Erik Kancler, Linda E. Hollis and William Fulton, April 2006, The Brookings Institution

Using two metropolitan areas - Orlando and Seattle - with differing growth management regimes, this paper examines the effects of conscious growth policy on metropolitan form and argues overall for a holistic approach to land use, infrastructure, and open space. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioCritical Infrastructure Protection and the Private Sector: The Crucial Role of Incentives

Peter R. Orszag, September 04, 2003, House Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research & Development and the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security

Testimony by Peter R. Orszag (9/04/03) Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPaying for Prosperity: Impact Fees and Job Growth

Arthur C. Nelson and Mitch Moody, June 2003, The Brookings Institution

A new analysis of impact fees - one-time charges against new development - shows that the fees promote growth in local economies by providing an increased and predictable supply of buildable land. Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPeak-Hour Traffic Congestion

Anthony Downs, March 19, 2002, Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works

Testimony by Anthony Downs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, before the Presented before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, March 19, 2002 Read More

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioHow Real Are Transit Gains?

Anthony Downs, March 2002, Governing Magazine

Article by Anthony Downs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in Governing Magazine Read More

In Brief

Infrastructure—freight ports, airports, bridges, roads, rail and transit networks, water and sewer systems and the web of channel communications—is America’s connective tissue and crucial to its economic competitiveness. Smart policies and investments can enhance the health and vitality of metropolitan areas, where the bulk of the U.S. population lives.

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