Publications

A Competitive Model for Public Airport Privatization 0
- Publications, TRANSPORTATION
- August 10, 2018
Working Paper 18-01 (August 2018) Author: Gregory N. Golyansky DOWNLOAD WORKING PAPER IN PDF Executive Summary: The airline deregulation of 1978 has created a dynamic and competitive environment for air- travel in America. Lower prices, wider service choices and new destinations have transformed civil aviation from a country club for only the privileged to those
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How Existing State Revenues can be Reallocated to Fix Colorado’s Roads 0
- Issue Papers, TRANSPORTATION
- April 4, 2017
IP-4-2017 (April 2017) Author: Linda Gorman DOWNLOAD REPORT IN PDF FORMAT Executive Summary: The purpose of this paper is to suggest how Colorado state government might fix the roads without increasing taxes by reallocating current state spending away from duplicative, ineffective, or wasteful programs, especially those outside of the core responsibilities of state government. It
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A Decade of Colorado Road and Transportation Spending in Pictures 0
- FISCAL, Issue Backgrounders, Issue Backgrounders, TRANSPORTATION
- March 28, 2017
The roughly $300 million a year that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says it needs to fill the state’s road spending deficit is less than 2 pennies out of each dollar of total state spending.
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Using Disparate Impact to Restore Housing Affordability and Property Rights in Colorado 0
- Issue Papers, LOCAL COLORADO PROJECT, TRANSPORTATION
- March 17, 2017
Fair-housing advocates should question policies that increase housing costs by intruding on private property rights. These include growth- management tools such as urban-growth boundaries, the use of eminent domain for economic development, rent control, inclusionary zoning, and excessive impact fees, all of which benefit a few at everyone else’s expense. In approving the disparate- impact doctrine, the Supreme Court has offered a tool to both affordable-housing advocates and property-rights advocates for undoing these rules and policies that make housing less affordable.
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Denver transit-oriented developments reflect planners’ misguided mania for density 0
- Op Eds, Publications
- August 21, 2014
Over the past decade, three-, four-, and five-story apartment buildings have been built in the Denver area, especially along the routes of current and planned rail transit lines. These apartments, known as transit-oriented developments or TODs, are a part of the original FasTracks plan: first, build rail lines that don’t go where people want to
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Why rapid-buses are preferable to rail transit 0
- Op Eds, Publications, Roads
- August 12, 2014
Transit agencies from Baltimore to San Diego and from Seattle to St. Petersburg are planning new light-rail lines. Yet light-rail is not only vastly more expensive than buses, it is slower, less comfortable, less convenient and has lower capacities than a well-designed rapid-bus system. Being expensive to build, light-rail can only reach parts of a
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