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.
May 20, 2016 The just-passed Senate appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2017 contains a...
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May 20, 2016 - The Federal Railroad Administration formally admitted on May 18 that the first phase of the beleaguered...
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Tuesday, May 24 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – full committee hearing on improving the safety and reliability of the...
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Delivering the Goods focuses on finding a funding source for expanding and improving the national freight program established by the...
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Text of Senate amendment #4042 to the FY 2017 Transportation-Housing appropriations bill, adopted by the Senate by voice vote on...
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May 17, 2016 - The House Appropriations Committee has released the draft “chairman’s mark” version of the panel’s fiscal year...
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PDF document containing seven tables explaining the draft FY 2017 Transportation-HUD appropriations bill approved in a House subcommittee on May...
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Chart showing the ten-year history of the five major USDOT discretionary appropriations programs (FAA Operations, FAA Facilities and Equipment, TIGER...
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March 28, 1966 Commerce Department memo that summarizes the political state of affairs regarding new Corps of Engineers benefit cost...
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May 16, 2016 - In addition to a full calendar of I-Week events designed to help promote awareness of the...
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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,...