Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. Major State Transportation Legislation, 2011 - This report summarizes the state legislative trends in finding new ways to finance state surface transportation systems in their 2011 sessions.
2. Model Based Pavement-Vehicle Interaction Simulation for Life Cycle Assessment of Pavements - The study uses mathematical modeling rather than roadway experiments to look at the effect of pavement deflection on vehicle fuel consumption across the entire U.S. road network. It finds that using stiffer pavements on the nation’s roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3 percent.
3. Whose Roads? Evaluating Bicyclists’ and Pedestrians’ Right to Use Public Roadways - This report investigates the assumptions that motor vehicle travel is more important than non-motorized travel and motor vehicle user fees finance roads.
4. Americans Cool on Geoengineering Approaches to Addressing Climate Change - This paper looks at the American public's attitude towards using geoengineering solutions as a means to combat global warming.
5. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Building a more accountable toll agency with performance management - This white paper discusses five rewards of performance management, explains the difference between performance measurement and performance management, and provides a step-by-step guide to developing a performance management system.
   • Manageable infrastructure - This issue explores ways to build flexibility into infrastructure to get better service now and greater adaptability later, examines ways to gain efficiency for today's needs while achieving flexibility for tomorrow's demands, and shares ideas on how to recover value and transform underutilized buildings.
   • Clean Energy: Revisiting the Challenges of Industrial Policy - This paper reviews the history of industrial and energy technology policy since the 1970s, examines the environmental and energy-independence rationales, analyzes claims about the potential role for government backing of clean energy to ensure U.S. competitiveness and save or create jobs, explores the administrative and political challenges of implementing an efficient clean-energy research and development portfolio, and sketches recommendations.