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.
January 28, 2015 - The CBO baseline for federal aviation programs reiterated one thing that was (in retrospect) obvious back...
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April 2, 2015 - The Obama Administration this week submitted the legislative text of a slightly revised version of the...
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SECTION-BY-SECTION SUMMARY OF S. 808, SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2015 The bill redesignates sections 701 through 706 of...
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March 26, 2015 - House Ways and Means chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), probably the single most important legislator on this...
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March 19, 2015 - Last week, when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its re-estimate of the President’s budget request...
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March 19, 2015 - Last week, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association made an interesting proposal to make a...
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March 11, 2015 - The quarterly release of the Treasury Bulletin contains the forecasts for the Harbor Maintenance (HMTF) and...
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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,...