Alex Marshall

Recent Articles

• Getting in Front of Communication and Transportation Investments
• Oct 1, 2010
• Government keeps adapting to how information and people travel.

• Accelerating Amtrak Trains
• Jul 30, 2010
• Will superfast train service in the Northeast ever happen?
• 5 Comments

• Installing City-Wide Fiber-Optic Networks
• Jun 1, 2010
• Don't wait to find out if Google will install broadband in your city.
• 4 Comments

• Airport Economics
• Apr 1, 2010
• Big city airports need federal regulations to help weather airline instability.
• 2 Comments

• The Aughts: The Decade of Infrastructure
• Feb 1, 2010
• As the decade ends, there's little to cheer save a notable exception: infrastructure.

• Transportation Decisions: Part Calculation, Part Imagination
• Dec 1, 2009
• When it comes to roads, practicality and economics are important. But so is emotion.

• The Weaknesses of Sweeping Privatization
• Oct 1, 2009
• The most important question is not whether private investment in roads and other public infrastructure will revive, but the degree to which it should.

• Traveling At Good Speed
• Aug 1, 2009
• Transportation policy shouldn't be reduced to average commuting times.
• 2 Comments

• A Bridge to Somewhere
• Jun 1, 2009
• Sometimes, if you build it, they really do come.

• The Semi-Fast Track
• Apr 1, 2009
• The stimulus will help roads and transit. It's no panacea.

• A Road by Any Other Name
• Feb 1, 2009
• Infrastructure is a vital concept. If only we could call it something else.

• Road Show
• Dec 1, 2008
• A city redefines how to use its streets -- even its busiest, most traffic-clogged roadways.

• The Comfort Zone
• Oct 1, 2008
• There's more to moving people around than wings and wheels, speed and price.

• Our Friend, the Feds
• Aug 1, 2008
• It could be a mixed blessing if federal funding for infrastructure goes on the upswing again.

• More than Just a Train
• Jun 1, 2008
• I'm starting to believe the hyperbole about the revolution being spawned by Charlotte's new light-rail line.