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.
March 29, 2017 - Thirty years ago this week, an 18-month struggle over the future of federal highway and mass...
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March 27, 2017 - Last Friday evening, the White House Office of Management and Budget sent Congress proposed changes to...
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March 23, 2017 - A series of three interviews with transportation leaders hosted by Axios featured bipartisan perspectives from Emil...
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March 23, 2017 - The President's budget outline released last week is so light on details that you can’t even...
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March 23, 2017 - This week, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), the ranking minority member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure...
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March 17, 2017 - A House hearing week examined how communities are implementing emerging technology and sophisticated data collection methods...
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March 9, 2017 - The long-running drama between the trucking industry and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) over...
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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,...