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Navigating port funding: Alternatives for reforming the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund
By addressing the existing inequities and compliance challenges, the U.S. can move toward a more equitable and effective funding mechanism for seaports.
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Annual Transportation Finance Report 2025
Infrastructure investors financed $77.5 billion worth of public-private partnership infrastructure transactions last year.
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Annual Surface Transportation Infrastructure Report 2025
It was a strong year for global public-private partnership activity with 43 surface transportation project closings worth $11.9 billion.
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Annual Aviation Infrastructure Report 2025
For the world overall, 45% of all passenger air traffic moves through airports with significant private investment.
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Advancing remote air traffic control tower deployment in the United States
Remote/digital tower technology is in wide use in Europe and is rapidly expanding to Asia, Canada, and the Middle East.
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Drug decriminalization in Oregon: Measure 110’s impacts compared to other countries’ systems
A review of the data does not indicate any massive shift in offense rates or criminal behavior as a result of Measure 110.
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Transportation and climate change: Urban mobility in a climate-sensitive world
Transportation is undergoing its most profound changes in over half a century.
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Transportation and climate change: Public transit
This report focuses primarily on operating energy intensiveness and transportation energy impacts as affected by public transportation’s influence on land use.
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Interstates first: Why the transition to road user charges should begin with limited access highways
To begin the transition from gas taxes to per-mile charging, the U.S. needs a plan to address drivers' privacy, double taxation concerns, and the cost of collection.
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Transportation and climate change: Travel trends and GHG emissions
As the single largest domestic GHG emissions-producing sector, transportation is inevitably a focus of climate change mitigation initiatives.
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Addressing the transit productivity crisis
Public transit ridership is unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels within the next decade.
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Psychedelic treatment for neurodegenerative disorders
Recent research suggests that psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, show strong potential as effective treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
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Vision Zero and Complete Streets: Do they make roads safer?
In the wake of rising traffic fatalities, municipalities have been looking for a comprehensive solution to reduce or eliminate traffic fatalities.
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The case for Connecticut’s fiscal guardrails
The “fiscal guardrails” have saved Connecticut more than $170 million and could save $7 billion over the next 25 years.
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A framework for federal and state hemp-derived cannabinoid regulation
The growing popularity of hemp-derived products has stimulated significant legislative attention in recent years, with over 90 regulatory proposals introduced in state legislatures in 2024 alone.
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Transparent K-12 open enrollment data matters to parents, policymakers and taxpayers
A total of 16 states have strong statewide cross-district open enrollment laws, while 13 states have strong statewide within-district open enrollment laws.
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Reforming environmental litigation
There is growing bipartisan support that the NEPA process, as it has evolved since the legislation’s enactment in 1970, has gone too far, placing obstacles and delays in the way of needed energy and transportation infrastructure projects.
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Is private equity a public financial hazard?
Private equity funds lack clear return and risk metrics, making it hard to assess performance before investments are redeemed, often a decade or more after the initial investment.
