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Ilya Repin´s painting of Volga boatmen is not one of serfs.
Archive for the ‘Transportation’ Category
January 10th, 2010
New high-spped line under construction – in Morocco.
August 4th, 2009
Category: Transportation
Ed Glaeser has an interesting post attempting to run the numbers for high speed rail. For my money, the most important point is that the thing that makes high speed rail problematic in most parts of the country is the absence of a tightly concentrated central business district. High speed rail makes sense in the [...]
April 24th, 2009
Jon scooped me on this last night because I got home so late from the all-day meeting of the Air Resources Board that adopted the LCFS. I was there because my team at Berkeley (with another group at Davis and a subcontract to Purdue) did a large part of the supporting research for this innovative [...]
