Lifecycle Economics & Industrial Power

Documents the empirical relationship between lane-mile additions and vehicle-miles traveled, demonstrates how induced demand is systematically excluded from DOT cost-benefit models, and applies the RSM formula to documented highway expansion cases.

Constructs the deferred maintenance liability embedded in US road infrastructure and introduces the Road Subsidy Multiplier by tracing the gap between gas tax revenues and the true 20-year lifecycle cost of road pavement.

Analyzing the long-term consequences of the gasoline tax pact, including urban sprawl, systemic fragility, and the challenges of rebuilding transit in an auto-dependent landscape.

Examining the systematic dismantling of streetcar networks by National City Lines, backed by GM and oil companies, and the criminal conspiracy that replaced electric transit with buses.

An exploration of how the gasoline tax created a dedicated funding stream for roads while systematically undermining transit, leading to auto-dependent cities and the Great Streetcar Scandal.

Tracing the origins of the gasoline tax as a user-funded model that created a self-reinforcing loop favoring roads over transit, setting the stage for America's auto-dependent infrastructure.