• The economic price tag of relying on a single fuel source;
• The current and forecast trends regarding oil imports and domestic production;
• The challenges of biofuel production, new technologies, current production and future forecasts;
• Natural gas as a growing and relatively inexpensive transportation fuel;
• Diesel technology and energy efficiency;
• Electric vehicle technology; and
• Effective state policy options for increasing domestic fuel production and promoting fuel diversity.

The report aims to provide state policymakers and others with an overview of the many options available as they work toward the long-term transportation energy solutions that tap local resources, develop new industries, and shield their economies from the vicissitudes of the international oil market.

• How Would Proposed Fuel Economy Standards Affect the Highway Trust Fund? – This report estimates the impact of the proposed CAFE standards on the nation’s Highway Trust Fund over a 30 year period. It lays out several options for policymakers to consider to minimize the impact.
• Mapping Large Truck Rollovers 2012 Report (Available upon request)- This report identifies dense concentrations of large truck rollovers using historical crash data from 2001 to 2009. This analysis demonstrates that a geographic database of large truck rollover events can be created to identify locations where large truck rollovers frequently occur.
• Proactive Assessment of Accident Risk to Improve Safety on a System of Freeways – This report describes the development and evaluation of real-time crash risk-assessment models for four freeway corridors. The models are based on a binary classification approach, with traffic parameters measured at surrounding vehicle detection station locations as the independent variables. The analysis techniques used in this study are logistic regression and classification trees.

• Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech On a Path To Subsidy Independence – This report aims to take stock of the coming changes to federal clean tech subsidies and programs; examine their likely impact on key clean tech market segments; and chart a course of policy reform that can advance the US clean tech industry beyond today’s cycle of boom and bust.
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Florida – This report defines renewable energy and cleantech, discusses the current status of clean energy in Florida, outlines the current incentives available in Florida and at the Federal Government level, for the promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency, covers barriers to commercialization and project finance for cleantech projects in Florida, analyzes regulatory changes, and makes recommendations.

• Responding to the change in how infrastructure is developed – This forum discussed ways in which to respond to the change in how infrastructure is developed by bringing together key industry leaders, elected officials, clients and HNTB professionals to discuss issues and potential solutions.
• Preparing for a Changing Climate: Washington State’s Integrated Climate Response Strategy – This document describes how existing and new state policies and programs can better prepare Washington to respond to the impacts of climate change and makes recommendations to the state.
• Preliminary Analysis of the Jobs and Economic Impacts of Renewable Energy Projects Supported by the §1603 Treasury Grant Program – This report provides a preliminary analysis of the gross impacts of the solar photovoltaic and large wind projects supported under the §1603 grant program rather than precise forecasts of the national economic and job-related impacts from these projects.
• Regional Resilience – This report summarizes recent research on disaster resiliency to provide a framework for regional development organizations to address the capacity and vulnerability challenges faced when engaging community resources following a disaster.

• Why the House Should Give States Greater Tolling Flexibility – This policy brief explains what is at stake for America’s most important surface transportation infrastructure, the aging U.S. Interstate highway system and why the House should give states more flexibility in using pricing to reduce congestion and toll finance to rebuild and modernize that system.
• Gaining Public Support for Freeway Congestion Pricing – This white paper proposes a multi-pricing approach for freeways.

• Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Rural Planning, Zoning, and Development Codes – This report offers ten essential fixes to help rural communities amend their codes, ordinances, and development requirements to promote more environmentally and economically sustainable growth.
• Commuter Rail: Potential Impacts and Cost Estimates for the Cancelled Hudson River Tunnel Project – This report examines (1) what would have been the mobility, economic, and environmental benefits of the project according to major planning studies; (2) the project cost estimates over time; and (3) how, if at all, documents prepared as part of the New Starts process addressed potential cost growth for the project.

• Annual Energy Outlook 2012 – This outlook provides the basis for examination and discussion of energy market trends and serves as a starting point for analysis of potential changes in U.S. energy policies, rules, or regulations or potential technology breakthroughs. Its projections focus on the factors that shape U.S. energy markets in the long term, under the assumption that current laws and regulations remain generally unchanged throughout the projection period.
• Introduction to managed lanes – This white paper explains managed lanes to give transportation agencies a foundational understanding of this relatively new congestion-control strategy.