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The Country is the Natural Unit of Policy Analysis

Electrification Costs and Confounders

The Failure of Bus Grids at the Scale of Los Angeles

Conflict About the FRA Study on Penn Station

Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development

Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New England

Quick Note on Ridership Estimation and the STOPS Model

IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook

Secondary Stops in Cities on Intercity Rail

Quick Note: Cars and Suburbs Commoditize Location

Meme Weeding: Regular Funding

Quick Note on Subway Operating Costs

Devolution Best Practices

The RPA Publishes Bad Report Against Through-Running

How Much Community Outreach Does the Urban Institute Think Italy and Turkey Do?

Learning from Many Places is Better than Learning from One

Why High Speed 2 and Other European Lines Make Fewer Stops than the Shinkansen

EU, Germany to Accelerate Rail Investment in Response to Iran War

Quick Note: Commuter Rail and Urban Bus Hubs

Why IBX Shouldn’t Connect to LaGuardia

Why Building Metros is Necessary for the Green Transition Away from Cars

There’s no Such Thing as Overtourism

Against Land Value Capture

Against Free Buses

A Better Billion and the Cost Model versus the 125th Street Subway Extension

British Construction Costs and Centralization

Fare Practices

Quick Note: The Importance of Penn Station Access West to Through-Running

It’s not the Baumol Effect

New York Isn’t Special

High Speed Rail-Airport Links

High-Speed Rail is not for Tourists

Why is Janno Lieber Constantly Blaming Other People for Problems?

Reverse-Branching on Commuter Rail

The Invention of the Traditional System of Project Delivery

Transit-Oriented Development and Rail Capacity

High-Speed Rail Ridership Estimator Applet

Timetable Padding Practices

Reasons and Explanations

How One Bad Project Can Poison the Entire Mode

Did the Netherlands Ever Need 300 km/h Trains?

Can Ridership Surges Disrupt Small, Frequent Driverless Metros?

The Hamburg-Hanover High-Speed Line

Cross-Border Rail and the EU’s Learned Helplessness