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My Dinner with Corrado
Last week, I had the delightful opportunity join a small group for dinner with Corrado Poli (warning, it’s in Italian). Poli is a professor of “Economics and Environmental Ethics” in Padua. He is in the U.S. on a fellowship at Johns Hopkins to do an English translation of his book “Rivoluzione Traffica” (Traffic Revolution). Poli…
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VMT Tax Arguments
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: B. Starr McMullen, Professor of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University Topic: Pros and Cons of a Vehicle-Mile Tax When: Friday, May 11, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Summer Forecast: Streetcar Crush Loads
Streetcar ridership has followed a relatively consistent cycle of growth. Each summer we see new peaks (the hypothesis is that this is driven by occupancy of new residential units along the alignment), then it drops off a bit in the winter, only to rise again the following summer. New extensions, like the one opened to…