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The Economics of Bicycling
We hope you will join us for the next PSU Friday Transportation Seminar. ____________________________________________________________ Speaker: Dr. Kelly Clifton, PSU Topic: The Economics of Bicycling When: Friday February 15, 2013, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 _____________________________________________________________ Portland State University Winter 2013 Friday Transportation Seminar Series
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The Case for Distance-based Fares
A piece on Streetsblog makes the policy argument for distance-based transit fares. They actually use Portland’s Fareless Square as part of their argument, apparently unaware of recent history. I generally support this line of argument, at least from a pure policy policy point of view. TriMet has argued that one of the pragmatic reasons for…
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What Was That About the Cost of Congestion?
Via @pauldreher and @humantransit Professor Eric Dumbaugh of Florida Atlantic University has found a POSITIVE correlation between levels of travel delay and per capita GPD in major metros. That’s right, it would appear that cities with more congestion have greater economic output per person. Go figure…
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Would single-payer healthcare help resolve the TriMet labor impasse?
Apologies for going off topic somewhat–healthcare is not a primary topic of this blog. However, the big issue in the dispute between the union and TriMet isn’t pay, but healthcare benefits. Costs for have been growing without bound, and are expected to grow. Health care costs for public employees are taking an ever bigger share…
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Could TriMet become a “free” (or nominally-priced) service, Part 2
Last fall, Portland Transport considered the question of whether or not TriMet could become a free (or nominally-priced) service. Right now, the Farebox Recovery Ratio of the TriMet system in aggregate is about 25%, and last fiscal year fares provided nearly $100 million of TriMet’s overall operating budget. This discussion occurred right after TriMet first…