Category Archives: Automobile

What would happen if . . . we raised highway speed limits?

(March 21, 1998) We asked Frank Navin, professor of civil engineering, and Michael Cain, director of research at Saftey by Education (Not Speed Enforcement), to comment Continue reading

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Discussion Group, Every car a cab

(September 21, 1997) Taxi regulations take consumers for a ride while exploiting drivers, clogging our cities, and promoting suburban sprawl. Continue reading

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Technology, Policy For Free-Flowing Roads Discussed in Canada

(January 13, 1997) ITS and private road developers have more in common than ETC. Other ITS applications will find their legs in these entrepreneurial initiatives, speaker at conference says. Premium-priced express lanes could be the automated highways of the future. Attendees from worlds of ITS, infrastructure development, finance, government and the environment examine emerging opportunities. Continue reading

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Planners from hell – New Jersey chokes on auto emissions regulations

(December 21, 1996) To meet the national 1990 Clean Air Act, New Jersey’s legislature has passed an auto emissions law that is not only inefficient and costly, but also could lead to the state seizure of vehicles from privately owned driveways. Continue reading

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Toll roads safer, better-maintained, expert Says

(November 21, 1996) Huge construction and maintenance costs may make tolls inevitable, not only on new highways but on those already in use, a Toronto conference has heard. Continue reading

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