GAO Report Breaks Down FHWA Spending By Improvement Type November 10, 2014 | Jeff Davis November 10, 2014 - Data underlying a recent GAO study reveals that in FY 2013, of the $41 billion in...
Tax Reform/Transportation Connection Mentioned Again November 10, 2014 | Jeff Davis November 10, 2014 - President Obama, Speaker Boehner, and Majority Leader McConnell have recently made public statements in favor of...
Election Gives Mixed Message For Trans. & Infra. November 10, 2014 | Jeff Davis November 10, 2014 - Voters in numerous states and localities sent mixed messages on transportation and infrastructure ballot initiatives in...
Szabo Departure Adds To Vacancy List At DOT Modes November 10, 2014 | Jeff Davis November 10, 2014 - Federal Railroad Administrator Joe Szabo announced last week that he will be leaving FRA at the...
Republican Strength in the U.S. House, 1913-2015 November 10, 2014 | Jeff Davis November 10, 2014 - Chart shows the Republican share of seats held in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913...
Senate R’s To Vote On HTF Scoring Rule November 10, 2014 | Jeff Davis November 10, 2014 - As part of their organizational conference later this week, Senate Republicans who will serve in the...
Devolving Surface Transportation Infrastructure Responsibilities to the States: What's Past is Prologue October 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton BY ERIC PETERSON Transportation Consultant During the 1919 transcontinental convoy, west of Grand Island, Nebraska, soldiers use a winch to...
RAISE USER FEES: The Road to Good Highway Policy October 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton BY TOM McNAMARA Transportation Consultant, and former UDOT policy staff, OST Good highway policy is difficult to achieve. Nonetheless, it...
Federal funding for highways is stagnant and the Federal Aid Highway Program (FAHP) appears to be “shrinking by default.” Transportation infrastructure is not a top 10 public polling issue. Highway conditions have improved and there is little “inside the beltway” dialogue on transportation infrastructure. Meanwhile, popular discussion of mobility is more focused on new vehicle technology than on highway infrastructure. October 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton BY STEVE LOCKWOOD Senior Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff A New Context for the FAHP? In the absence of Congressional action,...
The Case of the Neglected Transit Bus October 25, 2014 | Tomorrow Eno will release a new study looking at regional transit governance (Getting to the Route of It: The Role...
Improving Transportation Performance: Time to Focus on Operations September 25, 2014 | Congress has been able to accomplish very little this year, but one thing they agreed they needed to do was...
A Lesson From Stockholm's Sustainable Development: Identifying Crucial Tensions, Conflicts or Tradeoffs in Urban Sustainability Policies August 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton BY AMY RADER OLSSON Director, KTH Center for a Sustainable Built Environment Urban challenges are indisputably complex—even “dually complex,” because...
