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Senate Deciding Whether To Take Up Highway Bill

September 9, 2015

September 9, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 22, 2015 - At this hour (late Wednesday afternoon), the Senate is waiting to hold a “re-vote” on a...

Preparing a Nation for Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Barriers and Policy Recommendations

September 9, 2015

Authored by Daniel Fagnant, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, and Kara M. Kockelman, an engineering...

State of the Union, Other Announcements Preview Admin. Transportation Agenda Including New Bonds

September 8, 2015

September 8, 2015 | Jeff Davis

January 21, 2015 - President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress...

Would the DRIVE Act Spend Federal Funds More Effectively?

July 29, 2015

It has been six years since the transportation community had the opportunity to mull over a six-year transportation bill written...

FY19 HTF Shutdown Fits In Well With Tradition of HTF Bill “Triggers”

July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015 | Jeff Davis

July 22, 2015 - Section 80003 of the Senate DRIVE Act now provides for a clean and complete shutoff of...

1993 Robert Rubin Memo to President Clinton on Energy Taxes

May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

February 1993 memo to President Clinton from his chief economic adviser giving the pros and cons of various types of...

Virginia's Commitment to Transit Funding Creates a Wealth of New Projects Benefiting the Commonwealth

April 19, 2015

Virginia has a long history of commitment to mass transit. The Washington, D.C. region's Metro system, the result of a...

1977 President Carter Handwritten Note to Sec. Adams Opposing New Subway Systems

March 24, 2015

March 24, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

President Carter's March 1977 handwritten note to new Transportation Secretary Brock Adams explaining why the President thought most new subway...

1978 President Carter Meeting on Airline Deregulation Bill

March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION

This week’s ETW Document of the Week is a Carter Administration memo preparing the President for a meeting with the...

Houston has a shiny, new bus network

March 1, 2015

March 1, 2015 | Paul Lewis

Over the past decade, Houston has invested a significant amount of resources in public transit. Most notably a new 12.8-mile...

Time for Autonomous Vehicles to Disrupt Transportation Planning

December 25, 2014

December 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY MARK McDOWELL Transportation Consultant Over the coming decades autonomous vehicles (AVs) will insinuate themselves into our society and the...

Could Building a Canal In Nicaragua Be the Answer?

November 25, 2014

November 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY AARON J. GELLMAN Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University In 2013, Chinese interests revealed their intentions to construct...