Week of May 14, 2018

Appropriations, Aviation, FASTLANE, Federal Budget, Federal Funding,...

May 15, 2018 | Jeff Davis

House Bill Would Fund USDOT at $88.8 Billion in FY 2019

May 18, 2018 - An $88.8 billion spending plan for the U.S. Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2019 sailed through a House subcommittee this week and will go before the full Appropriations Committee next...

Air Traffic Control

May 18, 2018 | Robert Poole

Guest Op-Ed: A U.S. Air Traffic Control Corporation Is Inevitable

I maintain that the United States will eventually remove the ATC function from safety regulator FAA and remove it from the federal budget, converting it into some kind of self-supporting corporation.

Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Federal Governance, Positive Train Control, Railroads

Senate Subcommittee Questions Commuter Rail's Lack of PTC Progress

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Alexander Laska

May 17, 2018 - The lack of progress in implementing Positive Train Control (PTC) on the part of some commuter...

Automated Vehicles, Cybersecurity, Data, TNCs, Traffic Safety

Guest Op-Ed: Do We Need to Upgrade from “Informed Consent” to “Informed Risk” with Autonomous Vehicles?

May 18, 2018

Gregory Rodriguez

The danger that consumers are not clearly consenting to conditions they have read and understand is a potential impediment to...

Appropriations, Environment, Federal Funding, Federal Governance

FY19 Update: Do the House Appropriations Bills Keep the $10 Billion Infrastructure Promise?

May 17, 2018

May 17, 2018 | Jeff Davis

May 17, 2018 - Now that the House Appropriations Committee has released most of its draft fiscal year 2019 appropriations...

Appropriations, Federal Budget, Federal Funding, Federal Governance

CBO: White House $15.2 Billion Rescissions Bill Only Reduces Deficits by $1.3 Billion

May 17, 2018

May 17, 2018 | Jeff Davis

May 17, 2018 - The White House's much-ballyhooed package of proposed spending cuts, submitted to Congress on May 8 and...

Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Rail

FTA Commits First FY18 Capital Investment Grant Funding

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Jeff Davis

May 18, 2018 - The Federal Transit Administration signed two more Capital Investment Grant "small start" funding agreements this week,...

Appropriations, Environment, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund

House Bill Trims State Water Infrastructure Grants but Expands WIFIA Loans

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Jeff Davis

May 18, 2018 - This week, the House Appropriations Committee released the text of the draft fiscal year 2019 Interior...

Federal Governance, Maritime, Ports

Water Resources Bill Introduced in House

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Jeff Davis

May 8, 2018 - Today, the bipartisan leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced the House version of...

Public transit, Railroads

Eno Releases New Recommendations for Improving the Nation’s Rail Transit Infrastructure

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Paul Lewis

May 17, 2018 - On Monday, Eno released a new report, Tools for a Smoother Ride: Managing Rail Assets and...

Bridges, Cybersecurity, Highways, National Security, Public transit, Public/Private Partnerships, Railroads, Resilience, Streets, Transit Workforce, Workforce development

Infrastructure Week: Four Themes from the East Coast Kickoff Event

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Brianne Eby

Eno was on site at the East Coast Kickoff event, which featured leaders from federal, state, and local governments, labor...

Automated Vehicles, Environment, Mileage-Based User Fees, Public health, Resilience

Infrastructure Week: Planning for a Resilient Future

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Alice Grossman

May 18, 2018 - Planning for and building resilient infrastructure can minimize life-cycle costs if changes in technology, security threats,...

FASTLANE, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Freight rail, Ports, State Governance, Trucking

Infrastructure Week: Freight in Focus

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | So Jung Kim

May 18, 2018 - During Infrastructure Week, two panels featuring freight experts and stakeholders emphasized the multimodal freight infrastructure needs...

Accessibility, ADA, Automated Vehicles, Public health, Public transit, TNCs

Infrastructure Week: Panel Discusses Bridging the Gap Between Transportation and Healthcare in the DC Region

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 | Carolyn Dorf

Due to the high cost of emergency medical care, healthcare providers are starting to see the clear link between transportation...

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