October 16, 2019 – The just-ended fiscal year 2019 appears to be the first year since 1988 where the year-end unexpended balance in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) was lower than the balance at the end of the previous fiscal year – but not by much.
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October 16, 2019 – Eno and a group of partners recently facilitated a study tour to examine congestion pricing in action in London and Stockholm. Those cities employ cordon style pricing, which assesses a fee on motorists that drive in a defined area of the city center, similar to what officials are planning to do in New York. Both cities coupled the charge with vastly improved bus service in advance of the policy’s rollout to accommodate the expected shift from driving to transit.
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October 15, 2019 – For fiscal year 2020, there were only three states that received highway formula funding that was less than 100 percent of their most recently estimated annual tax payments to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund – Texas, Colorado, and South Carolina. But the adjustment to get Texas above a 95 percent “rate of return” actually made the other two state’s rates of return worse…
At DART, we’ve already begun to see the transformational benefits of the MAX Program in action. Since 2011, our participants have shared their positive experiences with the program and how its shaped their goals and focus on personal and professional growth.
Given that the factors that decide how more than $40 billion in annual highway funding have not been updated since 2009, we were curious as to how much had changed and what we could learn from creating factors that might be more relevant to today’s transportation needs. Our newest paper, Refreshing the Status Quo, was the result.
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October 3, 2019 – The Federal Highway Administration apportioned $43.4 billion in highway contract authority to states via formula this week as the final installment of funding under the FAST Act of 2015.
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October 3, 2019 – The Federal Highway Administration had to give Texas an additional $208.4 million in FY 2020 to meet the 95 percent “donor state” tax payment guarantee, which was then deducted from the other 49 states plus D.C.
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