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Nick Zaiac

R Street Institute

Nick Zaiac is a transportation and infrastructure resident fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based free-market-focused think tank. His research and writing focus on postal reform, shipping, infrastructure, occupational licensing and other regulatory issues. Before joining R Street, he was a graduate fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the Cato Institute and was on the staff of Regulation magazine.

Zaiac earned his bachelor's degree in international relations and economics from American University and his master's degree in economics from George Mason University.

Requiring two-person crews raises railroads' costs unnecessarily and discourages investment in technologies that could make shipping safer.