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transportation infrastructure. My favorite chapter title is “Smart Roads Meet
the Smart Phone.” The smartphone and
autonomous vehicles and even the kinds
of information reports that trucks are
transmitting to fleet management systems … all of these require a lot of
broadband and we are not investing in
that either in the U.S., so I want to see all
these issues talked about together.
QI also want to ask you about the concept of the “quintuple wins.”
You went back to that over and over
again in the book. How did you develop
that, and how do we use that to drive the
argument forward?
AWell, thank you for picking that up because that is something the
public can understand and get—that for
every project, we should be evaluating it
against its contributions to five different
things, what I call the “quintuple wins”:
safety, cost efficiency, productivity, a
cleaner environment, and economic
development.
You take something like the Miami
Port Tunnel project, which I talk about
in the book. Within a year after the
tunnel opened, it had already taken 80
percent of the truck traffic off the streets
of downtown Miami and funneled it
directly to the interstate. That has at
least five wins in it. It’s safer because it
diverts trucks from areas where they’re
likely to be in collisions. It is very cost
effective—the project came in under
budget and it is now saving time, so
that takes out a big cost. It is very effi-
cient, boosting productivity by allowing
trucks to get on the road or to the inter-
modal terminal a lot faster and thus, to
carry more goods from the port. This
is incredibly environmentally friend-
ly—they didn’t disturb the ocean floor,
so that project met the environmental
sustainability criteria. And it’s a perfect
model of how a project can promote
economic growth—in this case, provid-
ing a way to take advantage of the larger
ships that are going to come through
the expanded Panama Canal. It’s going
to make that area even more of a cargo
shipping center. So that is one example
of something that has five wins.
I want to hold that standard. I
want to say we don’t just spend
money on bridges to nowhere. We
do things that are going to make
us healthier and safer, and make
our system more efficient. We will
raise productivity, make it more
convenient for everybody. We will
see environmental benefits and a
reduction in carbon emissions, and
it will create not just today’s jobs in
construction but also create jobs for
the future.
