Three Pragmatic Initiatives for the Incoming Secretary of Transportation

June 26, 2013 |

The advice often given to incoming members of the President’s Cabinet is to pick three issues on which to focus...

Design-Build: Doing More With Existing Resources

May 26, 2013 | Carter Templeton

BY RICHARD THOMAS, LCP Director, State & Local Legislative Affairs, Design-Build Institute of America Passing legislation in Congress has never...

Why is Air Traffic Control a Government Function?

May 26, 2013 |

Last week the sequester finally began hitting Congress where it hurts – by snarling air traffic and delaying flights. The...

Investing in Seaports Pays Dividends

April 26, 2013 | Carter Templeton

BY KURT NAGLE President, American Association of Port Authorities Every four years since 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers...

Introducing Policy Change: The Case of Knives on Planes

April 26, 2013 |

Last month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) unveiled a plan to permit some items that had been previously banned back...

Transportation as Utility

March 26, 2013 | Carter Templeton

BY ERIC PETERSON Transportation Policy Consultant, Former Deputy Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration at the U.S. Department...

Three New Visionary Ideas for the President

March 26, 2013 |

When President Obama gave his State of the Union speech to Congress last month, the transportation community reaction was mixed....

An Incomplete Agenda for the Nation's Transportation System

February 26, 2013 | Carter Templeton

BY ERIC PETERSON Transportation Policy Consultant, Former Deputy Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration at the U.S. Department...

Virginia's Transportation Funding Proposal and the User-Pay Concept

February 26, 2013 |

Governor Bob McDonnell’s proposal for funding transportation in the Commonwealth of Virginia has been the subject of a flurry of...

Transportation Policy Resolutions for the New Year

January 26, 2013 |

2013 promises to be an eventful year for federal policy-making. The entire tax code and virtually all domestic spending programs...

Is Quantitative Easing an Option for Infrastructure Financing?

January 26, 2013 | Carter Templeton

BY ERIC PETERSON Transportation Policy Consultant, Former Deputy Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration at the U.S. Department...

January 21, 1913: The First Congressional Hearing on Highway Aid

January 21, 2013 | Jeff Davis

The story of the first-ever Congressional hearing on giving road aid to states, on January 21, 1913.