Air travel and rail transport were early examples of deregulation bringing huge benefits to consumers and industries. Yet automobility, air travel, and freight rail, are increasingly threatened with further regulation that will reduce their ability to transport goods and people. CEI opposes these attacks by arguing for greater freedom in mobility and opposing perverse transportation industry regulations.
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Energy and oil prices driving force behind March inflation increase: CEI analysis
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for March shows a 0.9 percent increase across all sectors, mainly driven by significantly higher energy and oil…
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Privatize a little, fix a little: Why Trump’s TSA contracting plan is not meaningful privatization
If this latest Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown has confirmed anything, it is how deeply structural the drawbacks of the Transportation Security Administration…
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From airport security lines to the Danger Zone: TSA delays and public safety
The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) staffing shortfall is creating more than long lines. It may already be putting travelers’ lives at risk. Since the partial…
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Surface Transportation Board Delays Consideration of Regulatory Reform Petition
Yesterday, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) published a decision on a March 2019 rulemaking petition from the Association from American Railroads (AAR). The AAR petition…
Trucks.com
Infrastructure Funding Looks Dead Until at Least 2020
Trucks.com cites Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on highway funding. “We have been skeptical since the beginning,” Marc Scribner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise…
IBTTA
Opinion Leaders Educate And Build A Bigger Tent For Tolling
IBTTA cites CEI on infrastructure spending. In June, the Competitive Enterprise Institute pointed to the $140 billion Congress has spent to bail out the Highway…
Transportation Today
IBTTA Agrees With Infrastructure Report on Tolling
Transportation Today cites Senior Fellow Marc Scribner’s recent report, Transforming Surface Transportation Reauthorization: A 21st Century Approach to Address America’s Greatest Infrastructure Challenge. The International…
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Energy and Commerce Committee Holds Contentious Hearing on Trump Auto Rule
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on June 20th on the Trump administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) motor vehicle rule. The rule proposes to freeze Corporate Average…
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association
IBTTA Applauds Competitive Enterprise Institute Report Calling On Lawmakers To Remove Restrictions On Interstate Tolling
The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association cites CEI’s report on transportation infrastructure, authored by Senior Fellow Marc Scribner. Today, Patrick D. Jones, Executive…