Buried in the annual Analytical Perspectives volume of the federal budget is a chapter called “Federal Investment” that pulls out federal spending across all departments and agencies in three key areas: research and development, education and training, and “major public physical capital investment.” Anything that you or I might consider…
February 21, 2020 – The total “usable” amount of federal-aid highway formula funding provided to states so far in FY 2020 is actually $208 million less than the comparable amount provided by this point in 2019.
February 21, 2020 – The Appropriations Committees used alternate formulas for distribution of certain highway funding to states this year, instead of the regular formula, to the specific benefit of certain states.
A catalog of major statements of federal transportation policy, 1937 to the present.
On Tuesday, February 11, the House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce held a hearing on “Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of Evolving Automotive Technologies.” The hearing foreshadowed the yet to be fully released House bill on automated vehicles outlining key concerns and topics of…
February 14, 2020 – Allan Rutter, Senior Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, discusses how near-instant e-commerce deliveries will increase traffic in major cities and result in incremental costs to our infrastructure and environment.
February 14, 2020 – The Federal Highway Administration has apportioned to states the $2 billion in additional highway formula funding from general revenues provided by the fiscal 2020 transportation appropriations act.
February 14, 2020 – The Trump Administration requested $1.9 billion for mass transit Capital Investment Grants in its fiscal 2021 budget.
February 14, 2020 – If the Highway Trust Fund portion of the Trump Administration’s ten-year, $810 million surface transportation reauthorization proposal were to be funded solely by increasing federal gasoline and diesel fuel excise taxes, how much would those taxes have to be increased?
February 14, 2020 – The Trump Administration is proposing $2.5 billion in cuts to federal water infrastructure programs in fiscal year 2021.