Federal Prohibitions on Toll Roads, How They Got There, and How the GROW AMERICA Act Proposes to Change Them

May 6, 2014 | Jeff Davis

Let’s just say that Congress has been having this debate for a really long time. The first law providing federal...

Improving Transportation = Better Quality of Life for City Dwellers

April 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY RICHARD HARRIS Solution Director, Xerox Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) refers to a wide range of services that use information...

Transportation and Technological Change: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles

April 24, 2014 |

There is tremendous excitement in the transportation world about the idea of self-driving vehicles, also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs)....

California: Helping Themselves to a Brighter Future

March 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY KYLE MOTYCKA Business Development and Proposal Manager - Rail Veolia Transportation Maintenance & Infrastructure, Inc. California and Hollywood. The...

America's Infrastructure Crisis Isn't Overstated

March 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY BRIAN PALLASCH Managing Director of Government Relations and Infrastructure Initiatives American Society of Civil Engineers JANET KAVINOKY Executive Director...

Yapping at 35,000 Feet: Should There be a Limit to Personal Electronic Freedom in the Air?

March 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY CASSIDY If you travel by air as much as I do, I am sure you cannot help but notice...

The Bell Tolls for User-based Funding

March 24, 2014 |

Last month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has...

Three Ideas for Big City Departments of Transportation

February 24, 2014 |

The United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of...

Shared Use Mobility: The Next Big Thing in Transportation

February 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY LARRY FILLER Transportation Consultant and MARC OLIPHANT Regional Employee Transportation Coordinator at Naval District Washington We are at the...

Is It Time to Dismantle the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey?

February 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY DAVID Z. PLAVIN Like living organisms, public authorities seem to have a finite life cycle. They come into being...

The Challenge of National Freight Policy: How to Pay For It?

January 24, 2014 |

2014 could be the year that a national freight policy begins to take focus in a new authorization bill. There...

Completing Projects With Less Funding: Sound Transit's Success Story

January 20, 2014 | Carter Templeton

BY JONI EARL Chief Executive Officer Sound Transit Many transit agencies were hit hard by the recession; what added dimension...