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"The Myth of the Compact City: Why Compact Development Is Not the Way to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 653, November 18, 2009

"How Urban Planners Caused the Housing Bubble," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 646, October 1, 2009

"Getting What You Paid For -- Paying For What You Get: Proposals for the Next Transportation Reauthorization," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 644, September 15, 2009

"High-Speed Rail Is Not "Interstate 2.0"," by Randal O'Toole, Briefing Paper no. 113, September 9, 2009

"High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 625, October 31, 2008

"Rails Won't Save America," by Randal O'Toole, Briefing Paper no. 107, October 7, 2008

"Roadmap to Gridlock: The Failure of Long-Range Metropolitan Transportation Planning," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 617, May 27, 2008

"Does Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 615, April 14, 2008

"The Planning Tax: The Case against Regional Growth-Management Planning," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 606, December 6, 2007

"Do You Know the Way to L.A.? San Jose Shows How to Turn an Urban Area into Los Angeles in Three Stressful Decades," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 602, October 17, 2007

"Debunking Portland: The City That Doesn't Work," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 596, July 9, 2007

"The Perfect Firestorm: Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs under Control," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 591, April 30, 2007

"Flirting with Disaster: The Inherent Problems with FEMA," by Russell S. Sobel and Peter T. Leeson, Policy Analysis no. 573, July 19, 2006

"A Desire Named Streetcar: How Federal Subsidies Encourage Wasteful Local Transit Systems," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 559, January 5, 2006

"Liberating the Roads: Reforming U.S. Highway Policy," by Gabriel Roth, Policy Analysis no. 538, March 17, 2005

"Sustainable Development: A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem," by Jerry Taylor, Policy Analysis no. 449, August 26, 2002

"A Plan to Liquidate Amtrak," by Joseph Vranich, Cornelius Chapman and Edward L. Hudgins, Policy Analysis no. 425, February 8, 2002

"Help Passenger Rail by Privatizing Amtrak," by Joseph Vranich and Edward L. Hudgins, Policy Analysis no. 419, November 1, 2001

"The Greening of the World Bank: A Lesson in Bureaucratic Survival," by James M. Sheehan, Foreign Policy Briefing no. 56, April 12, 2000

"Critiquing Sprawl's Critics," by Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson, Policy Analysis no. 365, January 24, 2000

"Smart Growth at the Federal Trough: EPA's Financing of the Anti-Sprawl Movement," by Peter Samuel and Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 361, November 4, 1999

"Speed Doesn't Kill: The Repeal of the 55-MPH Speed Limit," by Stephen Moore, Policy Analysis no. 346, May 31, 1999

"Time to Trash Government Intervention in Garbage Service," by Peter Van Doren, Policy Analysis no. 331, January 21, 1999

"Opening U.S. Skies to Global Airline Competition," by Kenneth J. Button, Trade Policy Analysis no. 5, November 24, 1998

"The Inherent Flaws of HUD," by Howard Husock, Policy Analysis no. 292, December 22, 1997

"ISTEA: A Poisonous Brew for American Cities," by Randal O'Toole, Policy Analysis no. 287, November 5, 1997

"Amtrak at Twenty-Five: End of the Line for Taxpayer Subsidies," by Jean Love, Wendell Cox and Stephen Moore, Policy Analysis no. 266, December 19, 1996

"Highway Aggravation: The Case for Privatizing the Highways," by Peter Samuel, Policy Analysis no. 231, June 27, 1995

"A New Aid Policy for a New World," by Doug Bandow, Policy Analysis no. 226, May 15, 1995

"Instrastate Trucking: Stronghold of the Regulators," by Cassandra Chrones Moore, Policy Analysis no. 204, February 16, 1994

"Sustaining Development and Biodiversity: Productivity, Efficiency, and Conservation," by Indur Goklany and Merritt W. Sprague, Policy Analysis no. 175, August 6, 1992

"False Dreams and Broken Promises: The Wasteful Federal Investment in Urban Mass Transit," by Jean Love and Wendell Cox, Policy Analysis no. 162, October 17, 1991

"Railroad Reregulation: Is the C.U.R.E Cure Worse Than the Disease?," by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hébert, Policy Analysis no. 98, January 20, 1988

"The Disunited States: A Country in Search of an Efficient Transportation Policy," by Robert V. Delaney, Policy Analysis no. 84, March 10, 1987

"Efficiency and Adjustment: The Impact of Railroad Deregulation," by Michael W. Babcock, Policy Analysis no. 33, January 31, 1984

"Deregulation and Re-Regulation of Transportation," by Thomas Gale Moore, Policy Analysis no. 12, July 8, 1982



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