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.
Last week we saw the first Administration-authored, publicly released surface transportation bill since 2003. In examining the arc of national...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Karen Pricehttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngKaren Price2014-05-25 12:55:572023-04-19 14:56:37The Road From SAFETEA-LU to GROW AMERICA
Let’s just say that Congress has been having this debate for a really long time. The first law providing federal...
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BY KYLE MOTYCKA Business Development and Proposal Manager - Rail Veolia Transportation Maintenance & Infrastructure, Inc. California and Hollywood. The...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Carter Templetonhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngCarter Templeton2014-03-24 18:56:312023-04-14 15:06:00California: Helping Themselves to a Brighter Future
Last month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has...
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The United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of...
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BY DAVID Z. PLAVIN Like living organisms, public authorities seem to have a finite life cycle. They come into being...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Carter Templetonhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngCarter Templeton2014-02-24 13:16:482023-04-14 15:11:32Is It Time to Dismantle the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey?
2014 could be the year that a national freight policy begins to take focus in a new authorization bill. There...
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BY JONI EARL Chief Executive Officer Sound Transit Many transit agencies were hit hard by the recession; what added dimension...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Carter Templetonhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngCarter Templeton2014-01-20 20:33:582023-04-14 15:11:33Completing Projects With Less Funding: Sound Transit’s Success Story
BY EDWARD J. REGAN Senior Vice President, CDM Smith MICHAEL TOWNES VICE PRESIDENT, TRANSIT SERVICES LEADER, CDM SMITH Neither transit...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Carter Templetonhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngCarter Templeton2013-11-26 20:59:192023-04-14 15:13:02Tolling and Transit: An Emerging Nexus
With the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) heading to conference, the legislative action on infrastructure and transportation turns...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.png00Karen Pricehttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngKaren Price2013-11-26 20:56:542023-04-14 15:13:09Three Steps to Improving Intercity Transportation in the Amtrak Reauthorization
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,...