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.
In a recent article published in Innovation NewsBrief entitled “A Conservative Vision for the Future of the Highway Trust Fund,”...
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July 10, 2015 With the Highway Trust Fund set to expire three weeks from today on July 31, 2015, the Washington...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2015-07-10 14:10:132023-04-17 07:09:30Follow Reagan’s Example, and Fill Up America’s Highway Fund
A series of three late November 1982 memos from DOT and OMB trying to refute the arguments that each agency...
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A June 1961 memo to President Kennedy from the head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency transmitting the draft...
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The United States and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are considered the gold standard for aviation across the globe. Our...
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February 1993 memo to President Clinton from his chief economic adviser giving the pros and cons of various types of...
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April 28, 2015 - The House Appropriations Committee released the full text of the proposed Transportation-Housing appropriations bill for fiscal...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ETWExpress20150428tab1.png472900Jeff Davishttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngJeff Davis2015-04-28 11:30:102023-07-28 02:11:45House’s FY 2016 USDOT Appropriations Bill Cuts Discretionary Spending, Freezes Major HTF Accounts; Bans Some Cuba Travel
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,...