December 3, 2008
Transportation Policy: Getting the Facts Straight
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt
(WebMemo #2148)
Many are recommending a substantial increase in federal transportation spending that would be funded by an equally substantial increase in the federal fuel tax. But ...
November 14, 2008
Omnibus Lands Bill Restricts Energy Exploration
By Nicolas D. Loris
(WebMemo #2130)
The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008 would result in a huge expansion in ownership of land in the United States. This would restrict ...
October 23, 2008
Is America's Infrastructure "Crisis" Just Another Crisis for Socialism?
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2111)
As the recent history of both federal and state transportation policy reveal, government’s ownership and operation of roads and transit have contributed to deteriorating service ...
October 17, 2008
Bridge Repair Mismanagement Undermines Highway Safety
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2104)
In the months since the fatal collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, safety concerns about the nation’s 600,000 bridges have become a leading symbol ...
October 9, 2008
Highway Trust Fund Inequities Will Get Worse in Future Years
By Ronald D. Utt
(WebMemo #2100)
As a consequence of flaws in the highway trust formula, many states consistently receive less than they pay in while others consistently receive more. There's ...
September 29, 2008
Reforming State Transportation Policy: Washington State’s Efforts to Implement Performance-Based Policies
By Michael Ennis
(Backgrounder #2189)
In 2005, voters in Washington State passed an initiative authorizing the State Auditor’s Office to conduct independent performance audits on several major aspects of the ...
September 3, 2008
Congress Undermines America's Infrastructure by Looting the Highway Trust Fund
By Ronald D. Utt
(WebMemo #2046)
Recent projections by the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office reveal that the highway trust fund will run out of money ...
July 28, 2008
How States Can Improve Their Transportation Systems and Relieve Traffic Congestion
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2165)
Voters' refusal to support tax increases to fund more road spending reflects, in part, their lack of confidence that federal and state officials would use ...
July 22, 2008
No Taxpayer Bailout for the Earmarked Highway Bill
By Ron Utt
(WebMemo #2001)
With the highway trust fund expected to be empty when the current highway legislation expires next year, the current spending gap should be filled by ...
July 18, 2008
Testimony Before the Texas Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security and Committee on International Relations and Trade
By Matt A. Mayer
(Testimony )
Testimony Before the Texas Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security and Committee on International Relations and Trade
June 16, 2008
Ending Pervasive Inequities in Gas Tax Burdens
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2143)
Halfhearted efforts to fix the federal highway program’s allocation formula have yielded little or no benefit to losing states. With its original goals fulfilled in ...
June 9, 2008
H.R. 6003 Would Be the Costliest Bailout in Amtrak's 40 Years of Federal Subsidies
By Ronald D. Utt
(WebMemo #1949)
This June, Members of the House of Representatives will be asked to support or reject the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (H.R. ...
April 29, 2008
How Smart Growth Exacerbated the International Financial Crisis
By Wendell Cox
(WebMemo #1906)
The U.S. mortgage meltdown has dominated business news for months. The crisis seems to deepen daily, and its impacts are felt throughout an increasingly interdependent ...
February 25, 2008
Dulles Rail Boondoggle Exposes Flaws in Federal Transportation Policy
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1824)
This $5.1 billion project would do little to relieve congestion, pollution, or energy use.
January 30, 2008
The Transportation Commission's Proposed 200 Percent Gas Tax Increase: One of Several Bad Ideas in Its Report
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2103)
The National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission has recommended raising the gasoline tax by 218 percent over the next five years to fund new ...
October 23, 2007
National Heritage Areas: Costly Economic Development Schemes that Threaten Property Rights
By Cheryl Chumley and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D
(Backgrounder #2080)
Rather expand federal involvement in local affairs, Congress should limit existing National Heritage Areas to their initial federal funding caps and enforce the statutory requirement ...
October 23, 2007
Executive Summary: National Heritage Areas: Costly Economic Development Schemes that Threaten Property Rights
By Cheryl Chumley and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D
(Executive Summary #2080)
Executive Summary: Rather expand federal involvement in local affairs, Congress should limit existing National Heritage Areas to their initial federal funding caps and enforce the ...
October 16, 2007
Washington Metro Needs Reform, Not a Federal Bailout
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1665)
Congress should link the continuation of existing federal subsidies to management and labor reforms at the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority.
October 9, 2007
Restoring Regional Equity to the Federal Highway Trust Fund
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2074)
Flaws in the highway program's allocation formula shortchange states in the South and Great Lakes regions. For several donor states, these misallocations cost them more ...
September 12, 2007
Congress Should Free Essential Bridge Repairs from Davis–Bacon Restrictions
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1612)
Instead of raising taxes in the wake of the Minnesota bridge collapse, Congress should remove restrictions that make repairing bridges unnecessarily expensive.
September 10, 2007
Mass Transit: Separating Delusion from Reality
By Wendell Cox
(WebMemo #1607)
Transit spending has failed to reduce traffic and wasted money that should have been spent on increasing road capacity.
April 18, 2007
Another Federal Assault on Property Rights: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(Backgrounder #2025)
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act (H.R. 319, S. 289), which would threaten the rights of property owners while largely benefiting well-to-do ...
February 20, 2007
The Urgent Need to Reform the FAA's Air Traffic Control System
By Robert W. Poole, Jr
(Backgrounder #2007)
Congress can open the door to the Next Generation Air Transportation System by reforming the Air Traffic Organization. By adopting what has become the global ...
February 20, 2007
Executive Summary: The Urgent Need to Reform the FAA's Air Traffic Control System
By Robert W. Poole, Jr.
(Executive Summary #2007)
Executive Summary: Congress can open the door to the Next Generation Air Transportation System by reforming the Air Traffic Organization. By adopting what has become ...
February 1, 2007
States Vote to Strengthen Property Rights
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2002)
More than 29 states have responded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Kelo v. City of New London ruling, which makes it easier for government to ...
January 22, 2007
Housing Affordability: Smart Growth Abuses Are Creating a "Rent Belt" of High-Cost Areas
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1999)
Housing affordability problems are concentrated in regions where anti-growth land-use regulations have limited the supply of building lots. High-cost housing encourages business and households to ...
January 22, 2007
Housing Affordability: Smart Growth Abuses Are Creating a "Rent Belt" of High-Cost Areas
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #1999)
Housing affordability problems are concentrated in regions where anti-growth land-use regulations have limited the supply of building lots. High-cost housing encourages business and households to ...
January 10, 2007
Rush Hour: How States Can Reduce Congestion Through Performance-Based Transportation Programs
By Wendell Cox, Alan E. Pisarski, and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.,
(Backgrounder #1995)
One by one, government programs in a growing number of states are becoming subject to performance-based systems to ensure that unresponsive bureaucracies are held accountable ...
September 13, 2006
Congress Considers Costly Bailouts for Amtrak, Metro
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1211)
The President should threaten to veto costly and irresponsible bailouts of Amtrak and Washington's Metro system.
July 17, 2006
H.R. 3496: The Biggest Pork Barrel Earmark in History?
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1163)
Representative Tom Davis (R-VA) is requesting the House of Representatives to consider an amendment (H.R. 3496, as revised) to the Deep Water Energy Resources Act ...
December 1, 2005
Property Rights Protection Get Bogged Down
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #927)
While there's much talk about firming up property rights, there's been little legislation passed.
November 15, 2005
Leadership Change Could Put Passenger Rail Back on Track
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #916)
Amtrak's board finally lost patience with Gunn's lack of progress in improving service and reducing losses. This is encouraging.
November 3, 2005
Senate Scheduled to Vote for More Wasteful Transportation Spending
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #909)
At a time of fiscal crisis, boosting federal subsidies to money-losing and mediocre Amtrak makes no sense.
September 28, 2005
After Weeks of Confusion, the Right Course for Evacuee Housing Assistance
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #866)
Yes to vouchers, no to remote and isolated trailer parks.
September 21, 2005
Pelosi Leads the Way on Highway Bill Give-Back
By Andrew M. Grossman and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #852)
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but apparently hurricanes have far stranger effects.
September 15, 2005
Congress Faces Pressure to Surrender Pork for Flood Relief
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #841)
The plan to redirect highway bill pork to a higher cause gathers steam.
September 2, 2005
The Katrina Relief Effort: Congress Should Redirect Highway Earmark Funding to a Higher Purpose
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #832)
In the face of genuine need, don't these expensive earmarks seem comparatively frivolous?
June 29, 2005
Kelo Backlash Could Lead to Restoration of Property Rights Lost to Smart Growth and Eminent Domain Abuses
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #781)
A bad decision may end up reinvigorating property rights.
June 15, 2005
A Serendipitous Flaw: Could Bad Brakes Lead to Fundamental Reform of Amtrak?
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #764)
Amtrak's own ineptitude, along with an unexpected equipment failure, may finally force reform of the troubled railroad.
May 16, 2005
Obfuscation Doesn't Change the Facts: Rail Transit Is Unreasonably Expensive
By Wendell Cox
(WebMemo #745)
Bringing a new rider to rail costs as much as leasing a luxury car.
May 9, 2005
Using the Veto Threat to Impose Reform on the Highway Reauthorization Bill
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #741)
As the Senate this week considers its version of legislation to reauthorize the federal highway program, Senators will be confronted with a number of opportunities ...
April 25, 2005
Can Both Sides of the Sprawl Debate Find Common Ground on Property Rights?
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #730)
The backlash against restrictive zoning.
April 11, 2005
Getting Urban Transit Systems Focused on Cost and Service
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #717)
How to put an end to transit's burden on taxpayers.
April 8, 2005
Mandated Fuel Surcharges: Will the Highway Bill Re-Regulate Trucking?
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #714)
The trucking industry doesn't need price controls.
April 6, 2005
Rethinking a Highway Bill Veto: What Would President Andrew Jackson Do?
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #709)
Pork barrel spending should make the highway bill veto bait.
March 16, 2005
Amtrak Bankruptcy: It's Time
By Keith Miller and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #689)
It is time for Amtrak to declare bankruptcy and get itself reorganized for a better future
March 7, 2005
Congress Gets Another Chance to Improve America's Transportation: Should It Be Its Last? (Draft)
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo )
Turn back the highway program to the states or to allow states to voluntarily opt out.
February 7, 2005
The President's Proposal to De-Fund Amtrak will Force the Railroad to Adopt Needed Reforms
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #655)
Maybe now Amtrak will get its act together.
February 1, 2005
Time for Congress to End the Regional Inequities in the Federal Highway Program
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #645)
The federal highway program shortchanges many states
July 28, 2004
The EPA Withdraws Inaccurate Smart Growth–Traffic Congestion Report
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1782)
The EPA's Characteristics and Performance of Regional Transportation Systems report was so deeply flawed that the agency was forced to withdraw it within two months ...
July 19, 2004
Can Canada Teach Us How to Hold The Line on Amtrak Funding
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #539)
Congress should limit Amtrak funding to $900 million and demand that Amtrak adopt improvements that have worked in Canada.
July 7, 2004
The Federal Highway Program Shifts Money from South to North
By Ron D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Executive Memorandum #938)
Pervasive distortions in the federal highway program force "donor" states (mostly Southern) to subsidize other states (mostly Northern). Fairness could be achieved by allowing each ...
June 25, 2004
The Costs of Sprawl Reconsidered: What the Data Really Show
By Wendell Cox and Joshua Utt
(Backgrounder #1770)
The anti-sprawl movement claims that newer (more sprawling) communities have higher government costs than older (less sprawling) communities. However, an econometric analysis shows no practically ...
May 20, 2004
A Note to House and Senate Conferees About the Highway Reauthorization Bill
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D
(Backgrounder #1756)
When considering the Transportation Equity Act (H.R. 3550), the following areas will require conferees' attention: earmarks, tolling restrictions, private-activity bonds, performance accountability, and the reopening ...
May 18, 2004
Opportunities for Private Sector Participation in Surface Transportation Investment and Operations
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Testimony )
Testimony of Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., before House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs on May 18, 2004 ...
April 15, 2004
Highways and Jobs: The Uneven Record of Federal Spending and Job Creation
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(Backgrounder #1747)
The findings of decades of independent studies cast serious doubt on advocates' claims for the federal highway program's job-creation potential. Even the one substantive study ...
March 5, 2004
Putting an End to Drive-By Lootings: An Open Letter to the President on the Highway Bill
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #439)
At the heart of a new highway funding program should be a new management system that imposes quantitative performance goals on federal and state transportation ...
February 18, 2004
Nature in the Suburbs
By Jane S. Shaw
(Backgrounder #1724)
If the United States continues to prosper, the 21st century is likely to be an environmental century. As wildlife proliferates, Americans will learn to live ...
February 13, 2004
Yes, Mr. President, Veto the Highway Bill
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1725)
The current highway bill is a poster child for profligate spending, expected to be loaded with pork-barrel earmarks, multimillion-dollar boondoggles unrelated to improving mobility, and ...
February 2, 2004
President's Surface Transportation Budget Proposal Holds the Line on Spending
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph. D.
(WebMemo #409)
President Bush's proposal to fund federal highway and transit programs at $257 billion over the next six-year reauthorization period will ensure that the impact of ...
January 27, 2004
The Contribution of Highways and Transit to Congestion Relief: A Realistic View
By Wendell Cox and Randal O'Toole
(Backgrounder #1721)
Overall, transit has little chance of reducing congestion in urban areas. Spending large sums of money to get a few drivers out of their cars ...
November 21, 2003
Proposal to Turn the Federal Highway Program Back to the States Would Relieve Traffic Congestion
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1709)
Congress has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to reform the federal highway and transit program to give greater responsibility and decision-making to the states and metropolitan areas ...
September 30, 2003
Obesity and Life Styles: Is it the Hamburger or your House?
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #343)
In a sustained effort to undermine America's preference for suburban living and promote land use regulations that force families into higher density housing, anti-suburban activists ...
September 24, 2003
End the Unions' Costly Monopoly of the Air Traffic Control System
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #340)
By threatening to use his veto against legislation that would protect federal air traffic controllers from competition, President George W. Bush succeeded in getting House ...
September 19, 2003
Sprawl and Obesity: A Flawed Connection
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #337)
A new report from Smart Growth America and the Surface Transportation Policy Project, Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl, links growing obesity concerns with sprawl. ...
September 11, 2003
Closing the Spending Gap Between Contending Transportation Reauthorization Proposals
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1688)
Recent proposals by the Bush Administration and some Members of Congress to use tolls and other user fees to supplement revenues from the existing federal ...
September 10, 2003
Transit Advocates Want the Working Poor to Use Bikes and Buses, Not Cars
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1687)
The federal transportation program has suffered from an advanced case of mission creep over the past several decades and now spends tens of billions of ...
September 10, 2003
Transit Advocates Want the Working Poor to Use Bikes and Buses, Not Cars
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #1687)
Executive Summary: The federal transportation program has suffered from an advanced case of mission creep over the past several decades and now spends tens of ...
July 17, 2003
Istook Draws the Line on Amtrak
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #317)
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation passed an appropriations bill that limits Amtrak's FY 2004 federal subsidy to $560 million – about the same amount ...
May 22, 2003
New Highway Proposal Fights Congestion with Fee-Based Express Lanes
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Executive Memorandum #882)
New highway reform legislation introduced in Congress in early 2003 could add tens of billions of dollars of new investment to our highway system without ...
May 2, 2003
Tolls and Surface Transportation Reauthorization
By Peter Samuel
(Backgrounder #1650)
If the United States wants to maximize its resources for improving our highways, then all projects that could be financed with tolls rather than with ...
April 9, 2003
Does Sprawl Breed Violence? A Debate
By Ronald Utt
(WebMemo #255)
Besides having the most murders, rapes, and assaults per capita of any developed nation, the United States is also home to 76 percent of all ...
April 7, 2003
Reauthorization of TEA-21: A Primer on Reforming the Federal Highway and Transit Programs
By Dr. Ronald D. Utt
(Backgrounder #1643)
Congress and the President should allow the troubled federal highway program to die a quiet death when the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century ...
April 7, 2003
Reauthorization of TEA-21: A Primer on Reforming the Federal Highway and Transit Programs
By Dr. Ronald D. Utt
(Executive Summary #1643)
bg1643: Executive Summary: Reauthorization of TEA-21: A Primer on Reforming the Federal Highway and Transit Programs
February 13, 2003
Public Transit: A Bad Product at a Bad Price
By John Semmens
(WebMemo #213)
The inconvenient, frequently uncomfortable, and slower transportation offered by public transit modes does not meet the needs of more than a small fraction of urban ...
November 12, 2002
Public Transit Systems: The High Cost of False Promises
By Wendell Cox
(Executive Memorandum #838)
Results in city after city reveal that urban rail systems are both costly and ineffective. Encouraging employers and workers to increase working at home or ...
July 3, 2002
Growing Smart Unwise
By James Kruzer and Andrew Olivastro
(WebMemo #137)
The American Planning Association's (APA) Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook is chock full of egregious assaults on property rights.
July 2, 2002
Forfeiting the American Dream: The HUD-Funded Smart Growth Guidebook's Attack on Homeownership
By Wendell Cox
(Backgrounder #1565)
The APA forfeiture proposal not only would help bureaucrats take people's homes away, but also would undermine the wealth-creating engine that has made America the ...
May 30, 2002
Will Sprawl Gobble Up America's Land? Federal Data Reveal Development's Trivial Impact
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1556)
Although federal data on land use reveal such concerns to be misplaced--only 5.2 percent of the continental United States is defined as "developed"--so-called smart growth ...
May 30, 2002
Will Sprawl Gobble Up America's Land? Federal Data Reveal Development's Trivial Impact
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #1556)
BG1556es: Will Sprawl Gobble Up America's Land? Federal Data Reveal Development's Trivial Impact
May 15, 2002
Dangers of Smart Growth Planning
By Wendell Cox
(Testimony )
Absent a material threat to other individuals or the community, people should be allowed to live and work where and how they like.
June 29, 2001
City Limits: Putting the Brakes on Sprawl: A Contrary View
By Dr. Ronald D. Utt and Wendell Cox
(WebMemo #20)
History could well show that shortly after ending red-lining, which suppressed minority home ownership rates, cities began green-lining, through imposition of growth areas, with virtually ...
April 6, 2001
Smart Growth, Housing Costs, and Homeownership
By Wendell Cox and Dr. Ronald D. Utt,
(Backgrounder #1426)
Governments can foster effective solutions to sprawl-created problems by resisting demands to impose coercive growth control policies and by clearing away the aging regulatory impedimenta ...
April 6, 2001
Smart Growth, Housing Costs, and Homeownership
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #1426)
BG1426ES: Smart Growth, Housing Costs, and Homeownership
September 13, 2000
"Growing Pains": The NGA's Flawed Report on Sprawl
By Steven Hayward
(Backgrounder #1393)
At its core, the debate over "sprawl" represents a clash of values and visions over federal and state government involvement in largely local issues.
May 9, 2000
Why CARA is Fiscally Irresonsible and a Threat to Local Land Use Decisions
By Gregg VanHelmond and Angela Antonelli
(Backgrounder #1370)
The bill authorizes placing more than $42 billion of Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil royalties into the trust fund over the next 15 years to ...
April 12, 1996
Why H.R. 842 Is Anything But "Truth in Budgeting"
By Utt, Ronald D.
(Issue Bulletin #223)
October 24, 1995
Time To Enact Real Enterprise Zones
By Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.
(Executive Memorandum #438)
There is a genuine and urgent desire in Washington to trigger an economic rebirth of America's inner cities.
January 18, 1994
The Wrong Way to Reinvent Public Transit Programs
By Thierer, Adam D.
(Executive Memorandum #374)
July 30, 1991
How Higher Gas Taxes Would Compound Damage from Last Year's Budget Deal
By Mitchell, Daniel J.
(Executive Memorandum #306)
April 25, 1991
America's Space Policy: Countdown to Major Reforms
By Hudgins, Edward L.
(Backgrounder #826)
February 21, 1990
Skinner's Mandate: To Complete Airline Deregulation
By Hodge, Scott A.
(Backgrounder Update #125)
January 30, 1990
Sam Skinner's Sensible National Transportation Strategy
By Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder #750)
January 29, 1990
The Case for Grounding the Dangerous Airline Bill
By Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder Update #123)
January 11, 1990
Will Congress Again Handicap U.S. Auto Competitiveness?
By Burnley, Jim
(Executive Memorandum #258)
January 23, 1989
Privatization of Britain's Airports: A Model for the U.S.
By Gattuso, James L.
(International Briefing #17)
February 23, 1988
Next Step for U.S. Space Policy
By Hudgins, Edward L.
(Backgrounder Update #70)
January 8, 1988
H.R.1393 — A High Cost Threat to America's Railroads
By Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder Update #63)
December 14, 1987
Using Competition to Break the U.S. Road Monopoly
By Semmens, John
(Backgrounder #622)
October 22, 1987
Fear of Flying? Not According to the Facts
By Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder Update #55)
August 27, 1987
A Proposal to Untangle America's Air Travel
By Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder #600)
October 29, 1986
Rx for Ailing U.S. Mass Transit Policy: A Dose of Competition
By Moore, Stephen
(Backgrounder #542)
September 25, 1986
The Conrail Sale: Back on Track
By Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder Update #25)
September 9, 1986
The High Cost of the 55 MPH Speed Limit
By Copulos, Milton R.
(Backgrounder #532)
August 6, 1986
Selling Conrail: Time for Congress to Name the Buyer
By Butler, Stuart M.; Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder Update #19)
January 20, 1986
The Conrail Sale: Still the Taxpayers' Best Deal
By Butler, Stuart M. ; Gattuso, James L.
(Backgrounder Update #5)
July 23, 1985
Saving Money by Saving O.P.S.I. Moore, Stephen
By Moore, Stephen :
(Executive Memorandum #87)
April 15, 1985
Time to Take Amtrak Subsidies Off the Rails
By Semmens, John
(Backgrounder #424)
February 15, 1985
- Giving Conrail a Green Light
By Gattuso, James L.
(Issue Bulletin #113)
July 25, 1983
Charting a New Course for Transportation Policy Pal
By Palffy, John
(Backgrounder #279)
April 11, 1983
An Amtrak for Space? No, Thanks
By Butler, Stuart M.
(Executive Memorandum #19)
November 9, 1982
End of the Line for Amtrak
By Semmens, John
(Backgrounder #226)
January 24, 1978
Airline Deregulation
By Ascik, Thomas R.
(Issue Bulletin #22)
January 26, 2008