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…
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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.
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.
October 2, 2019 – This article explains precisely how the FAST Act of 2015 ties each state’s annual federal-aid highway funding total to the last year of the SAFETEA-LU Act (fiscal 2009), which in turn relied on real-world apportionment factors as of the year 2007, and the distribution of earmarked projects by well-placed members of Congress in the summer of 2005.
September 27, 2019 – The House Railroad Subcommittee held a hearing on September 24 to examine the state of commuter rail in America.
September 27, 2019 – This week, the Federal Highway Administration formally lifted a 103-year-old regulation that has banned the use of patented or proprietary materials in federal-aid highway projects.