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Private Buses: Econtalk Takes A Second look at Santiago

August 24, 2010 By Adam Hengels

Back a couple years ago, I noted an Econtalk podcast with Russell Roberts and Duke University Professor Mike Munger on the private bus system in Santiago, Chile.  This week's episode starts with Munger's update on the Santiago transportation system after visiting for three weeks and spending a lot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, privatization, Transportation Tagged With: buses, Economics, econtalk, munger, private transit, public transit, Russell Roberts, santiago, traffic, transit

Urban[ism] Legend: Traffic Planning

August 14, 2009 By Adam Hengels

Mathieu Helie at Emergent Urbanism posted a link to a interesting game created at the University of Minnesota. Mathieu explains it better than I can:The game begins in the Stalinian Central Bureau of Traffic Control, where a wrinkly old man pulls you out of your job at the mail room to come … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, video Tagged With: cambodia, congestion, Gridlock, planning, roads, safety, signals, streets, traffic, Transportation

How Pricing Tolls Right Eliminates Congestion

April 23, 2009 By Adam Hengels

Chris Bradford over at Austin Contrarian has been making some solid points in favor of congestion pricing. (here, here, here and here)  Chris’s core argument in favor of congestion tolling is that: congestion pricing does more than relieve congestion.  Congestion pricing tells us when a road needs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, infrastructure, privatization, sprawl, Transportation Tagged With: Chris Bradford, congestion, congestion pricing, price signals, Private Roads, taffic flow, traffic, Transportation

Irrationality Towards Shortages

December 8, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Brendan Crain at Where tipped me off to a great post by Ryan Avent at The Bellows. Here's a little snippet of Shortage:For whatever reason, we’re not built to naturally internalize negative externalities. When riding on a crowded highway, no one (no non-economist, at any rate) curses the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, parking, Transportation Tagged With: anti-market bias, Chicago, government, highways, Matthew Yglesias, parking, Shortages, traffic

Unintended Consequences of Stop Signs

July 6, 2008 By Adam Hengels

The latest edition of the Atlantic Monthly features an article by John Staddon, a Professor of psychology and brain sciences at Duke University. The article discusses some of the differences in how the US and Britain regulates traffic and how there are unintended consequences to over-regulation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transportation, video Tagged With: Britain, inattentional blindness, signs, traffic, unintended consequences

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