April 9, 2020 – The operators of toll roads, bridges, and express lanes have requested $9.2 billion in emergency federal financial aid to help them meet debt service obligations amidst plummeting toll revenues due to coronavirus.
April 9, 2020 – The beginnings of decreased demand for transportation were registered in the excise tax receipts deposited in the various federal transportation trust funds in March 2020, the financial reports of which became available this week.
April 8, 2020 – The World War II experience in gasoline rationing may provide some interesting parallels to the current drop in vehicle miles-traveled caused by coronavirus response.
April 7, 2020 – The association of state DOTs yesterday asked Congress for $50 billion in immediate cash to replace revenues lost to coronavirus, to be followed up with an $800+ billion surface transportation reauthorization bill.
April 4, 2020 – Several university presses have made a number of books on transportation available in electronic form, free of charge, for the duration of coronavirus lockdowns.
April 3, 2020 – Seven days after President Trump signed the $2+ trillion coronavirus response bill (H.R. 748) into law, the Treasury Department and the Transportation Department are poised to start distributing some of the $88 billion in financial relief provided by that law for the aviation sector as early as next week.
April 2, 2020 – What effect is the coronavirus’s effect on demand for travel likely to have on the Highway Trust Fund, which is funded by gasoline and diesel fuel excise taxes, as well as several taxes on the trucking industry?
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April 2, 2020 – On March 31, the Federal Railroad Administration published in the Federal Register a set of proposed metrics and standards for judging Amtrak’s on-time performance and other factors.
April 2, 2020 – Earlier today (a day ahead of schedule), the Federal Transit Administration announced the apportionment and allocation of $24.925 billion in emergency appropriations to mass transit agencies across the country.