Easy Pieces - Transportation
Pay As You Drive
Usage-based or pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) auto insurance addresses the inefficiencies created when the price of auto insurance is divorced from car owners' consumption. With accurate price signals, drivers would optimize travel by combining or eliminating trips or using other modes of transportation. Studies have shown that paying insurance by the mile would dramatically reduce miles traveled.
Locate State Office Buildings Downtown
Downtown relocation laws require that new or relocated government office space be situated in downtown cores or near transit centers. Some policies also give priority to locating government space in historic buildings. This report discusses the numerous benefits of this progressive strategy.
Metropolitan Planning Organization Reform
Some Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) produce laudable results, but most do not live up to their potential to foster efficient, equitable, and environmentally sound metro areas. This report outlines MPO reforms and describes the possible benefits, costs, and public perception of such reforms.
Complete Streets
Many of the nation’s highways and roads have been built to improve the flow of automobile traffic, meaning they are of little or no use to pedestrians, bicyclists, or public transit users. “Complete Streets” policies require that streets, roads, and highways be designed to accommodate these additional forms of transportation, as well as motorists. This report highlights the positive impact of "Complete Streets" as a policy has on local communities.