On July 29, 2025. Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS), two of the three biggest rail companies in the U.S., agreed to an $85 […]
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Transportation
Telosa and the Challenge of Building a City from Scratch
The construction of a truly new city is among the largest infrastructure projects that can be undertaken. The metropolises of the modern world are supported […]
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Railroad Mergers: How do they work?
Railroads serve as an essential component of American transportation infrastructure, moving freight and people across the nation. The nation’s railways transported over $17.7 billion of […]
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Automated Track Inspection Goes National
In April 2025, the Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure published Driving Regulatory Innovation for Safer Railroading, examining how the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) waiver process […]
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Roadblocks or Reauthorization: Expert Webinar Recap
The Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure recently convened a panel of transportation policy experts for Roadblocks or Reauthorization: What to Expect – and When – […]
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Diminishing Returns from Public Transportation Infrastructure
While politics can make just about any issue a challenge to achieve consensus, debates over public transportation infrastructure tend to be less partisan. Finer details, […]
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Robots Under Arrest – Traffic Violations in the Autonomous Era
As the number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) rise in the United States, questions are raised on how and who to keep accountable. A recent article […]
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Highways or Transit: The Ongoing Debate About BUILD America 250’s Spending Cuts
On May 18, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I Committee) released H.R. 8870, ‘The BUILD America 250 Act’, which is […]
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Deadlines Alone Won’t Fix Permitting
In 2025, The American Society for Civil Engineers gave the United States a C on its annual infrastructure report card, while nine out of 18 […]
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Scrap The Gas Tax
The gas tax no longer matches the reality of the road. It is time to modernize how America funds infrastructure. In the face of […]
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Public, Private, and Often Misunderstood: What P3s Are – and Are Not
P3s are a tremendous tool to help build large-scale complicated and critically important infrastructure. As useful as they are, they are also greatly misunderstood. […]
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When Perceived Urgency Outruns Evidence in Policymaking
Tragedy deserves attention. It often demands action. But action for its own sake is a poor foundation for policy. In the aftermath of a high-profile […]
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The Canary in California’s Coal Mine: Imminent Lessons From the Philippines
This analysis was originally featured in the Innovation & Infrastructure Review ____________________________________________________________________________________ The Canary in California’s Coal Mine What the Philippines Energy Crisis Tells Us […]
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Measuring the Underground
Measuring the Underground: Advancing a New Estimate for the Total Linear Mileage of Buried Infrastructure in the United States —————— Abstract Trillions of dollars of […]
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The Sovereignty Trap: Energy, National Security, and Federalism
This analysis was originally featured in the Innovation & Infrastructure Review The Sovereignty Trap How California’s Refinery Decline Exposes the State’s Most Valuable Asset to [...]
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