electric vehicles
Transportation
The (Chicken/Egg) Problem With Your EV

Wondering which comes first, the cars or the charging capability, we might have a chicken egg problem for our EV charging stations.

supply chain
Transportation
How the Ever Forward Is Like Her Sister

Whether it’s the Ever Given or the Ever Forward (or the Ever Dainty and Ever Cozy), huge container ships have created cargo delays.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and Santa and Amazon
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Comparing Santa and UPS

Whether it’s what Santa does in 31 hours or the route of a UPS driver, comparing Santa Claus and UPS shows the holiday’s challenges.

economic news roundup and E-ZPass
Transportation
What We Need To Know About E-ZPass

One of the little noticed transformative impacts on our lives was the arrival of toll-by-plate, aka, E-ZPass or AET (All Electronic Tolling).

hot tub supply chain
Transportation
What We Can Learn From a Hot Tub

Affecting goods that range from stoves to couches, the causes of pandemic delivery delays can be shown by a disrupted hot tub supply chain.

high-speed rail transit
Transportation
A Lesson for Rail Transit From the Eastern Shuttle

Far behind other countries, high-speed rail transit in the U.S. just needs to copy what the Eastern Shuttle long ago did for air travel.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and hard and soft infrastructure
Economic History
How to Look at Infrastructure

To see the need for hard and soft infrastructure, we can look back at the catastrophic Donner Party and ahead to contemporary legislation.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and interstate migration
Transportation
Where and Why We Move

Where and why we move takes us to our migration patterns, to our transportation infrastructure, and to truck driver shortages.

transportation infrastructure
What's Trending
Concrete Decisions for the U.S. Transportation Infrastructure

The transportation component of the Biden infrastructure bill included repairing 10,000 bridges and modernizing 20,000 miles of roads.  It also has plans for air, rail, water, and public transport:   The report from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)…

value of time
Scarcity
What Your Time is Really Worth

Lyft can come in handy when economists need to calculate the dollar value of time for us and for government.

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