Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.
February 24, 2023 - Last August, the Federal Highway Administration almost let $250 million in highway funding lapse forever, unspent,...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/money-rolls-1-scaled.jpg17062560Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2023-02-24 18:02:252023-06-27 17:06:34ETW Exclusive: How Hundreds of Millions in Highway Funding Was Almost Lost Last Summer
February 24, 2023 - If House Republicans adopt a budget plan for the year that matches what they promised in...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/money-1-5-scaled.jpg16002560Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2023-02-24 15:10:202023-06-27 17:06:35Non-Defense Agencies Face Gruesome FY24 Budget Cycle Under House Plan
February 17, 2023 - The new CBO baseline projects more bad news for the Highway Trust Fund but a rosier...
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February 17, 2023 - As part of its annual budget outlook release this week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office updated...
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February 17, 2023 - The Treasury Department invests the cash held by the four transportation trust funds in radically different...
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February 16, 2023 - Buried in the supporting data of the new Congressional Budget Office baseline for the fiscal 2024...
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February 3, 2023 - The Federal Highway Administration this week notified state DOTs that they would be able to obligate...
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Jeff Davis, senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, said it’s already clear that the Biden administration plans to...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...