Posting his most recent entry on the National Journal Transportation Expert blog , BPC’s Director of Transportation Policy, Emil Frankel took the opportunity to reinforce the strength and ap...
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Emil Frankel , BPC’s Director of Transportation Policy recently weighed in on the National Journal expert blog discussion about whether investment in high-speed rail is beneficial for the ec...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/12/thoughts-on-investing-in-high-speed.html
Emil Frankel was recently invited to submit an entry on the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) official blog Talking Points discussing ‘What Changes Will the Ne...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-changes-will-new-congress-bring.html
NTPP's Joshua Schank discussed Transportation and Climate: Economic Growth and Implications of the Midterm Elections on Future Policy at an event co-hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center and t...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/10/transportation-and-climate-path-to.html
This week's National Journal Transportation Expert Blog poses a question, assuming Republic gains in Congress next year and potential Republic control of the House, how would the debate aroun...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/10/after-election-what-if.html
Today, NTPP Co-Chair, BPC board member and former Mayor of Detroit Dennis Archer joined mayors, governors and current and former transportation secretaries for a discussion with President Oba...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/10/ntpp-co-chair-dennis-archer-briefs.html
NTPP with Co-Hosts Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Congressman David Reichert (R-WA) hosted a policy briefing on the Hill to release our latest research paper How Fair is Road Pricing...
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Joshua Schank kicked-off the 2010 Oregon Transportation Summit on September 10th with an opening plenary address on transportation performance management. This conference brought together bot...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/09/performance-driven-at-2010-oregon.html
Our National Transportation Policy Project issued a statement in response to President Obama’s Infrastructure Plan announcement on Labor Day. Check out our statement .
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/09/commending-presidents-call-for.html
When asked whether transportation funding is raised and spent in a way that reflects how we actually use the highway system Emil Frankel points out, in his latest National Journal blog entry, tha...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/08/paying-for-nations-transportation.html
The topic for this week’s National Journal blog was whether the Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation (FREIGHT) Act of 2010 will enhance the nation’s fr...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/08/freight-act-of-2010.html
JayEtta Hecker, NTPP’s Director of Transportation Advocacy was recently appointed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Governance Review Task Force. The task force is b...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/08/jayetta-hecker-wmata-appointment.html
Joshua Schank, Director of Transportation Research for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP), was recently a member of a transportation equity panel on HI...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/08/transportation-equity.html
A bill authored by Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO) that calls for the elimination and redirection of $700 million in unspent transportation earmarks towards reducing the federal deficit overwhelmingly p...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/07/transportation-earmarks-rescinded.html
A stalwart of infrastructure development, Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) on Monday called for the Pennsylvania legislature to reach a consensus on a state transportation funding plan before the midterm ...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/07/transportation-funding-in-pennsylvania.html
Emil Frankel , Director of National Transportation Policy posted his latest entry on the National Journal’s transportation expert blog. This week’s topic concerns the benefits of high-speed ...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/07/high-speed-rail-as-business-engine.html
Few issues incite more controversy and clamor than the national “gas tax”. With the national deficit surpassing $13 trillion, some have eyed raising the national gas tax as a strategy for def...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/07/raising-gas-tax-for-deficit-reduction.html
Transportation policy expert Wendell Cox recently argued that high-speed rail is not the “silver bullet” to all of the nation’s transportation problems . In fact, he said that high-speed...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/07/wendell-cox-on-high-speed-rail.html
This afternoon NTPP released its latest report, Transitioning to a Performance-Based Federal Surface Transportation Policy . Drawn from the conversations of a workshop that convened leaders in t...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-ntpp-report-released.html
Emil Frankel , Director of Transportation Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center posted a blog entry on the National Journal’s Expert Transportation blog. The topic of the blog discussion was...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/06/considering-freight-transportation.html
In New York, State Senator Malcolm Smith is pushing for a high speed rail between Albany and New York City. He argues that a high speed rail project would create jobs, improve the environment,...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/06/high-speed-rail.html
On June 3, the Mackinac Policy Conference forum was held in Detroit and featured seven gubernatorial candidates. Transportation issues, specifically the gas tax and the Detroit-Windsor bridge (DR...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/06/susan-demas-op-ed-article.html
Emil Frankel, Director of Transportation Policy for the National Transportation Policy Project, was recently quoted in a Financial Times article “US deals with the politics of recovery”. In t...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/06/emil-frankel-in-financial-times.html
Emil Frankel , Director of Transportation Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center posted his latest blog entry on the National Journal’s Expert Transportation blog. The topic of the blog discu...
http://bpctransportation.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-do-you-think-of-usdots-draft.html
The National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP) held its fourth public forum in conjunction with New York University’s Rudin Center in New York City on January 25th. This forum, similar to...
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