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Economic history : Trade trailblazer : the National Road linked communities and helped expand America's western frontier

Econ Focus , Volume 7 , Issue Fall , Pages 36-39

Journal Article
Transportation planning : Charlotte tackles transit and land use together

Econ Focus , Volume 7 , Issue Spr , Pages 6

Report
Providing Labor Market Context for Debt-Related Driver’s License Suspensions in Ohio

More than 60 percent of Ohio’s driver’s license suspensions do not stem from bad driving; instead, they arise because the driver owes an unpaid debt. Debt-related suspensions (DRS) could prevent people from getting to work where they could make the money needed to repay the debt. In this report, we investigate whether DRS has implications for Ohio’s labor force.
Community Development Publications

Journal Article
Practitioner Perspectives: Workforce Development Challenges and Opportunities in the Eighth District

Roundtables with labor force development stakeholders across the Eighth District identified housing, transportation and child care as key barriers to work.
Bridges

Journal Article
Mass transit subsidies: are there better options?

Business Review , Issue Jul , Pages 7-17

Journal Article
Noteworthy: transportation: Texas highway investment falls short

Southwest Economy , Issue Nov , Pages 14

Journal Article
Highway grants: roads to prosperity?

Federal highway grants to states appear to boost economic activity in the short and medium term. The short-term effects appear to be due largely to increases in aggregate demand. Medium-term effects apparently reflect the increased productive capacity brought by improved roads. Overall, each dollar of federal highway grants received by a state raises that state?s annual economic output by at least two dollars, a relatively large multiplier.
FRBSF Economic Letter

Speech
Keynote Address

Addressing the Equitable Transit Summit in Scranton, PA, on October 17, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker discussed how access to transportation is a building block for economic well-being.
Speech , Paper 143

Working Paper
Global Transportation Decarbonization

A number of policy proposals call for replacing fossil fuels in the name of decarbonization, but these fuels will be difficult to replace due to their as-yet unrivaled bundle of attributes: abundance, ubiquity, energy density, transportability and cost. There is a growing commitment to electrification as the dominant decarbonization pathway for transportation. While deep electrification is promising for road vehicles in wealthy countries, it will face steep obstacles. In other sectors and in the developing world, it’s not even in pole position. Global transportation decarbonization will ...
Working Papers , Paper 2309

Discussion Paper
Housing policy and poverty in Springfield

This essay considers whether housing policies may have contributed to the concentration of poverty in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts ? a question that emerged in conversations with local leaders. Springfield is not alone in having large numbers of lower income households living downtown. This pattern is common in American cities. Recent research emphasizes the role of public transportation in causing lower income households to live closer to downtown. However, spillover effects and government policies, including housing policies, have reinforced this tendency. The essay reviews federal ...
Public and Community Affairs Discussion Papers , Paper 2011-1

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