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The Reason Mobility Project

Reason Foundation Mobility Project (804-kb PowerPoint)
Authors: Robert Poole, Jr. and Adrian Moore
Citation: PowerPoint show presented at 2006 Preserving the American Dream conference, 32 slides.
Summary: Describes the Reason Foundation’s program for improving U.S. urban mobility in the next twenty-five years.
Quote: ”Mobility boosts business! When travel speeds increase by 10%, the labor market increases by 15% and productivity increases by 3%.”
Keywords: Transportation policy

 

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Congestion.
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Energy Efficiency, Fuel Economy, and Policy

Energy Efficiency, Fuel Economy, and Policy Implications (4.4-mb pdf)
Author: Nicholas Lutsey and Daniel Sperling, UC Davis
Citation: Transportation Research Record, #1941 (2005), pp. 8-17.
Summary: Cars have been getting more fuel-efficient since 1973. From 1975 through the mid 1980s, this could be measured in higher miles per gallon. Since then, miles per gallon have remained the same but cars have gotten heavier and more powerful. The paper concludes that technological innovations have continued during both periods.
Quote: ”The rapid rise in fuel economy in the late 1970s was due to a mix of efficiency improvements and downgrading of utility in the form of reduced size, power, and eliminate of accessories and amenities (such as air conditioning). In constrast, since the mid-1980s, fuel economy has remained constant while the benefits of technological innovation were used to satisfy private desires (more power, size, and amenities).”

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Automobility.
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The Automobile and Its Impacts

The Automobile, Its Impacts, and the Role of Government (380-kb PowerPoint)
Author: Joel Schwartz, American Enterprise Institute
Citation: PowerPoint presentation made to the 2006 Preserving the American Dream Conference, September 16, 2006, 24 slides.
Summary: People are driving more, yet pollution and highway fatalities are declining. Moreover, they were declining even before the federal government began to regulate pollution and safety in 1970. The big problem is that roadway capacities have not kept pace with demand.
Quote: ”Most expenditures induced by federal air law don’t actually reduce air pollution, but centralized federal control has caused great collateral damage.”

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Automobility.
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Do Americans Have a Love Affair with Automobiles?

Do Americans Have a Unique Love Affair with the Automobile? (192-kb PowerPoint file)
Author: Joel Schwartz
Citation: Presentation before the 2005 Preserving the American Dream conference, Bloomington, MN, 17 slides.
Summary: The automobile vastly increased human welfare and is doing so all around the world.
Quote: ”By 1992, many European countries had reached America’s 1970 per-capita income level, and America’s 1970 per-capita car ownership level.”

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Automobility.
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Coping with the Car

Coping with the Car: Reconciling Automobility and “Smart Growth” (2.7-mb pdf)
Author: James Dunn
Citation: Presentation at Transportation and Economic Development 2002, Portland, Oregon.
Summary: Smart growth is not likely to have much of an impact on air pollution and energy consumption.
Quote: ”Investing political and economic capital in improving the environmental and energy performance of automobiles will yield greater and more sustainable results than attempting to change the preferences of Americans for automobility and low density, single-family homes.”

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Automobility.
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The Greatest Invention

The Greatest Invention: How Automobiles Made America Great (940-kb pdf)
Author: Randal O’Toole
Citation: Bandon, Oregon: American Dream Coalition, 2006, 27 pp.
Summary: The automobile has done more to enhance the quality of life of the average American than any other invention in the nation’s history.
Quote: ”In 1900, the average American traveled less than 3,000 miles per year, mainly on foot, and many lived and died without ever journeying more than fifty miles from home. Today the average American travels close to 20,000 miles per year, mostly in automobiles, and thinks nothing of taking trips of several hundred miles.”

 

Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Automobility.
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