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SUMMARY: The Transportation Economics Committee of the Transportation Research Board is seeking papers on "Issues relating to privatizing roads in the United States" for presentation at the TRB's Annual Meeting in Washington DC, January 13-17, 2013. The issues mentioned by the Committee are shown in its "Call for Papers", which is reproduced below.

Gabriel Roth wrote in an internet list debate that pricing of congested roads invariably raises the issue of whether any profits are used to support transit, or build more road. But it can lead to an argument for privatization...