The Tipping Point – Gasoline Prices
by Alan E. Pisarski (bio below), May 22, 2009
This White Paper and PowerPoint Presentation was presented to and published by The Heritage Foundation.
COST Comments: Almost daily, we experience general comments regarding the importance of integrating land use and transportation. These comments are typically superficial and not based on sound foundations of analytical evidence. The motivation of proponents of various land use and transportation alternatives is often driven by their view that they are more qualified to determine how and where people should live than the people themselves. This White Paper and Presentation by Pisarski address this issue as relates to whether or not there is a gasoline price “Tipping Point.”
Alan Pisarski
For almost 40 years Alan E. Pisarski has been involved in the national transportation policy scene, from vantage points at the original Tri-State Transportation Commission in New York, the Metropolitan Washington COG, the Office of the Secretary, U.S. DOT, or in a personal consulting capacity. In his work he has measured the transportation activities of our nation from the metropolitan, state, national and international levels. In the U.S. DOT he organized the major travel surveys of the nation and designed and managed the U.S. transportation statistical system under the Assistant Secretary for Policy, establishing programs that are still the basis of much of the U.S. transportation statistical system today.