Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses. This has been an excellent bit of testimony, which I think will be very useful for our study.
I'd like to start with Dr. Alhassan.
At the outset, you called for a national public transportation system. A lot of our conversation over the course of this study has been about the pros and cons of a public model versus a private model or some sort of hybrid in-between.
Could you lay out what you see as the main advantages of a public model?