Coles Center for Transportation

WPC's Coles Center for Transportation researches and analyzes best practices for relieving traffic congestion, with specific focus on highway and transit projects and how tax dollars are spent. We support people getting to the places they want to go the way they want to get there, not the way government planners want them to get there.

HAPPENING NOW

Five Principles for Transportation

BY CHARLES PRESTRUD, MARIYA FROST |

BLOG

Road User Charge/Mileage Tax

BY CHARLES PRESTRUD |

POLICY BRIEF

Transportation and COVID-19: A State Guide to P...

BY MARIYA FROST, ROBERT POOLE^ JR |

IN THE NEWS

Light rail expansion isn't what our region need...

BY MARIYA FROST | PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL

PRESS RELEASE

STUDY: WSDOT High-Speed Rail report riddled with errors

BY DAVID BOZE |

Coles Center for Transportation Issues:

Policy Analyst

Charles Prestrud

Coles Center for Transportation Director

email: cprestrud@washingtonpolicy.org

Phone: 206-937-9691

Charles Prestrud is director of the Coles Transportation Center. Charles brings more than thirty years of transportation experience to the position, including serving as WSDOT's planning manager for Ki Read More