Full Name
Bob Poole Poole
Job Title
Director of Transportation Policy
Company/Organization
Reason Foundation
Speaker Bio
Robert Poole is Director of Transportation Policy and the Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow at Reason Foundation.
His 1988 Reason policy paper proposing privately financed toll lanes on congested freeways directly inspired California’s landmark private tollway law (AB 680), which led directly to the world’s first express toll lane facility, added to the SR 91 freeway in Orange County. Today more than 60 express toll lane facilities are operational nationwide. In 1993 Poole managed a Reason policy study that introduced and named the term High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes.
In 2005 Poole served as a member of a special committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) that assessed the long-term viability of fuel taxes as the primary source of highway funding. The report, The Fuel Tax and Alternatives for Transportation Funding, concluded that fuel taxes would eventually need to be replaced.
His 1988 Reason policy paper proposing privately financed toll lanes on congested freeways directly inspired California’s landmark private tollway law (AB 680), which led directly to the world’s first express toll lane facility, added to the SR 91 freeway in Orange County. Today more than 60 express toll lane facilities are operational nationwide. In 1993 Poole managed a Reason policy study that introduced and named the term High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes.
In 2005 Poole served as a member of a special committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) that assessed the long-term viability of fuel taxes as the primary source of highway funding. The report, The Fuel Tax and Alternatives for Transportation Funding, concluded that fuel taxes would eventually need to be replaced.
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