Jan Mueller is the Senior Policy Associate leading the Transportation and Energy Program at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI). EESI provides educational resources to Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and stakeholder constituents on energy, climate, and environmental issues. Mueller's portfolio includes all transportation-related elements of federal energy and climate policy as well as policies to drive greater economic, energy, and environmental performance from federal transportation investments.
Mueller previously managed transportation policy issues for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), where he collaborated with state transportation agencies to advance transportation, economic, and environmental stewardship goals. Mueller began his career as an urban and regional planner including experience as a project manager for a private housing development company. He holds graduate degrees in environmental policy and land use planning, and an undergraduate degree in economics, all from the University of Michigan.
This question goes to the heart of the transportation policy debate. Quite simply, America needs to get more, a lot more, out of the hundreds of billions of dollars that federal, state, and local agencies spend annually on transportation infrastructure--not even counting the additional billions that consumers spend to use the system. Our transportation system serves multiple goals, and we need to set our sights on a system that continually improves the efficiency and effectiveness with which it meets these goals. So, before we talk about how to, physically, modernize our transportation system, tackling the issues posed in the question… Read more
I hope we can all agree that transportation-related deaths and injuries are equally tragic, whether the collision involves a truck, car, train, bus, bike, or pedestrian. Thus, to answer the original question--what can be done to improve safety across ALL modes?--I am hoping we can agree that safety dollars should flow to programs and projects that can demonstrate the greatest safety improvement --i.e. reduction in fatalities and injuries--at the lowest cost, regardless of mode. It is fitting and encouraging that Chairman Oberstar's House bill has elevated and strengthened safety as one of its pillar programs. These funds should be disbursed on… Read more
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