August 27, 2025 – With gas tax revenues in steep decline, America stands at a crossroads in how we fund the safe, reliable transportation system our economy and daily lives depend on.
August 27, 2025 – As travel patterns, technologies, and societal priorities evolve, U.S. transportation governance, safety enforcement, funding mechanisms, and federal reauthorization processes must be comprehensively restructured to meet emerging challenges.
August 27, 2025 – Managed lanes delivered through public-private partnerships provide faster, more reliable travel for carpools and transit, reinvest toll revenues into expanded mobility options, reduce congestion and emissions, and deliver broader community benefits by leveraging private investment.
August 27, 2025 – Congress has a choice: repeat the mistakes of the past or embrace policies that connect communities and foster prosperity.
August 27, 2025 – Like medicine two decades ago, transportation must modernize its safety practices with evidence, collaboration, and proactive prevention.
August 27, 2025 – Urban transportation is a messy but vital arena of experimentation, where cities juggle congestion, safety, funding, and disruptive technologies, and real progress depends on embracing trial-and-error, guarding against cyber and privacy risks, and cultivating a cross-trained workforce capable of learning from innovation to build safer, smarter, and more resilient systems.
August 27, 2025 – The U.S. lags behind other countries in adopting autonomous technologies not because of capability, but because of unclear federal rules. Reauthorization is a chance to set performance-based standards that boost investment, build trust, and bring autonomous vehicles into everyday use.
August 27, 2025 – As Congress prepares for the next surface transportation reauthorization, electrification must move from the margins to the mainstream of federal policy.
August 27, 2025 – Congress has an opportunity to build on past NEPA reforms by expanding assignment, cutting duplicative reviews, mandating programmatic mitigation, allowing earlier right-of-way acquisition, and streamlining litigation – evolving project delivery to be faster and more efficient while maintaining strong environmental protections.
August 27, 2025 – Federal highway funding overlooks three truths – it’s not additive, it raises costs and delays, and it can shrink real spending through inflation. Reclassifying states’ guaranteed Highway Trust Fund share as “non-federal” would cut red tape and speed up projects, with Congress still able to steer general fund dollars toward national goals.