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Poole, Reinhardt, and TRB value pricers give tributes to TOLLROADSnews


Reason's Bob Poole and Bill Reinhardt of Public Works Financing very graciously and flatteringly gave a dinner for TOLLROADSnews Tuesday evening at the excellent Lauriol Restaurant on 18thNW Street, up from Dupont Circle. They said things about TOLLROADSnews' value and importance so kind we're too shy to report.

Many of the crowd attending came over from the Value Pricing sessions of the TRB conference at Woodley Park.

Call for Papers TRB - on pricing & privatizing roads


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.

The case for pricing and privatizing roads put by anon government staffer 'Friedman'


We'll call him Mike Friedman after Milton (1912-2006.) He's a staff economist and engineer in a government agency. But he's expressing his personal views on a big policy issue outside of his work, so it's not appropriate to ID him. 'Friedman' puts the case eloquently for market priced provision of highways. He does this in the context of suggesting a discussion topic for a Transportation Research Board annual conference event.

RAND/TRB plan for AASHTO's VMT charges ignores toll technologies and expertise


AASHTO, the state DOTs lobby in Washington DC has a report from the Academies of Sciences' Transportation Research Board (TRB) that determinedly avoids toll technologies and expertise in the search for a quick fix to declining gas tax revenues. Written by a RAND Corp led team the report lists three options for estimating vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) charges:

TRB FANTASIES:Light Rail Costs vs Road


TRB FANTASIES:Light Rail Costs vs Road

Originally published in issue 34 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Dec 1998.

Page:15

Subjects:light rail costs versus road

Agencies:TRB

Locations:CA

Sources:Larwin Cox

REFERENCE:A Flawed Manual on Tolling from TRB


REFERENCE:A Flawed Manual on Tolling from TRB

Originally published in issue 34 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Dec 1998.

Page:14

Subjects:Tolling Practice manual TRB

Agencies:TRB

AUTOMATED HWY TRB applauds kill, scarifies mismanagement


AUTOMATED HWY TRB applauds kill, scarifies mismanagement

Originally published in issue 25 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 1998.

Page:6

Subjects:AHS

Agencies:TRB NAHSC

AHS

TRB applauds kill, scarifies mismanagement

Update on Caltrans


Update on Caltrans’ Williams & TRB

Originally published in issue 7 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1996.

Page:3

Subjects:transit bias

Agencies:TRB

Sources:Williams

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