All Canadian provinces have introduced legislation to punish people for using cellphones while driving. But, the legislation doesn’t appear to be working. The number of distracted driving tickets suggests that people just aren’t listening. Rather than ratcheting up...
Transportation
Nationalism in the Skies: The square peg in a round world
Executive Summary The 1944 Chicago International Aviation Conference, known as the Chicago Conference, was convened to determine how best to deal with air transportation between countries. A multilateral or borderless trade was proposed by the United States (hereafter...
Nationalism in the Skies and the bête noire of the 21st century
Emirates CEO Tim Clark says the airline industry considers the Gulf giant its “bête noire” –the “monster of the Middle East.” With two-thirds of the world living within eight hours of its Dubai hub, it seems the whole world is now changing planes in the Middle East....
Frontier Centre releases Nationalism in the Skies: The square peg in a round world
Today the Frontier Centre for Public Policy issued Nationalism in the skies: the square peg in a round world, authored by Mary-Jane Bennett. Nationality in a global business like aviation has made little sense Convened in 1944 by U.S. president F.D. Roosevelt to...
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
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Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Media Release – Convenient, Affordable Parking When and Where You Need It: The benefits of accurate pricing and smart technologies
As Canadian cities continue to grow, parking troubles will increase. Setting prices according to demand may be a sound technological solution.
No Need to Regulate High-Tech Taxis: Technology will eventually make Toronto’s taxi troubles quaint.
New software to be used with smart phones is poised to revolutionise the traditional taxi industry.
The End of Taxi Regulation: The advent of ubiquitous smart phones will be the undoing of conventional taxi regulation.
Ever-present smart phones are poised to transform the traditional taxi industry and rattle the regulations that currently govern it.
Transportation in Toronto and Beyond: From Ideology to Reality
How long it takes for people to get to work is a more important measure to guide and improve urban transportation policy than the means by which one does, whether it is on foot, by bicycle, by bus, by train, or by car.
Whither Taxi Regulation: Why GPS-enabled smartphones will send traditional taxi regulation the way of the dodo.
Smart phones promise to shake up the traditional taxi industry and the regulations governing it by creating a decentralised network of taxi dispatch.
Media Release – The End of Taxi Regulation: Why GPS-enabled smartphones will send traditional taxi regulation the way of the dodo.
The coming ubiquity of Smart Phones will make the current infrastructure and regulations of the taxi industry irrelevant.
Bus Rapid Transit Seen as Option Until LRT Lines Are Citywide: Trains more expensive, seen as most desirable choice for commuters
I took the bus or drove to work for 20 years before moving to a neighbourhood served by LRT, and there’s no comparison. LRT is vastly superior.
Fix No. 1 Highway: The Trans-Canada is far from the world-class Interstate Highway System that exists in the United States
The federal election has highlighted the need for transportation infrastructure in Canada’s Far North with the recent federal budget’s announcement of $150-million for an Arctic highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk.
Nenshi Wants Taxi Study Launched: Mayor reacts to complaints
Less than two years after a wide-ranging review of Calgary’s taxi bylaw, Mayor Naheed Nenshi wants city council to launch a major study on how to reshape the city’s cab and limousine industry.