Airports, Federal Budget, Federal Governance, Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund, Highways, Ports

Stakeholders, DeFazio Send Trump Infrastructure Ideas

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis

February 8, 2017 - Recently, President Trump received unsolicited advice on transportation infrastructure financing from two different sources - stakeholder...

Federal Budget, Federal Governance

New Estimates of “Tax Expenditure” Costs Released

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis

February 8, 2017 - The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (the tax-estimating counterpart to the Congressional Budget Office’s spending estimators)...

Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Public/Private Partnerships

New Study Touts Private Financing, but Capital Needs an Environment of Certainty

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Emily Han

February 8, 2017 - The Reason Foundation released a report last month about the federal barriers to private investment in...

Amtrak, Aviation, Environment, Federal Governance, Highways, Public transit, Railroads

Lipinski Introduces Bill to Strengthen Buy America Rules

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis

February 8, 2017 - Yesterday, Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) introduced a bill to strengthen and expand the “Buy America” statutes...

Automated Vehicles, Local governance, TNCs

The Self-Driving Honeymoon is Over for Uber and Pittsburgh

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Greg Rogers

The relationship between Uber and city officials in Pittsburgh, the transportation network company's test site for self-driving cars, appears to...

Automated Vehicles, TNCs

Why Uber and Lyft Re-Routed Their Self-Driving Ambitions

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Greg Rogers

February 8, 2017 On January 31st, Uber and Daimler announced an agreement to deploy autonomous vehicles on Uber’s ridesharing network....

Equity, Local governance, Transit Technology

Three Things to Know About the Other Smart Cities

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Rui Neiva

To discuss the progress among the finalist cities after the Smart City Challenge, Eno convened a panel of representatives from...

Automated Vehicles, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, State Governance

Three Things to Know about Automated Vehicles

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Rui Neiva

Eno hosted a panel at its recent Capital Convergence conference on AVs and what recent federal guidelines mean for the...

Automated Vehicles, Connected Vehicles, Trucking, Unmanned Aerial Systems

How Can Automation Improve Freight Delivery?

February 9, 2017

Feb 9, 2017 | Jeff Davis

At Eno’s Capital Convergence conference, held last month, one of the sessions examined the impact that existing and imminent new...

Federal Governance

House Democrats Fill Remainder of Committee Leadership Posts

February 8, 2017

Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis

Last week, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives filled the remainder of their posts on subcommittees for the new...

Aircraft, Automated Vehicles, Aviation Safety, Federal Governance, Homeland security

Capitol Hill Events - Week of February 13, 2017

February 7, 2017

Feb 7, 2017 | Jeff Davis

Tuesday, February 14 - House Energy and Commerce - Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection - subcommittee hearing on...