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.
October 5, 2018 - On October 2, the Cato institute hosted transit network design expert Jarrett Walker, of Jarrett Walker...
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October 3, 2018 - Three months from the Dec. 31 deadline, New Jersey Transit told the Senate Commerce Committee at...
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October 4, 2018 - This is the first week of the fiscal new year, and for the first time in...
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October 4, 2018 - On the first day of the new fiscal year, the Federal Highway Administration issued a formal...
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The Eno Center for Transportation on September 26 released a new study, The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars.
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September 28, 2018 - Congress has cleared a nine-week continuing resolution to fund parts of the federal government from October...
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September 28, 2018 - The House of Representatives has passed the final compromise five-year, $96.7 billion aviation reauthorization bill by...
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September 27, 2018 - On September 21, the USDOT announced the availability of new grants for two additional University Transportation Centers...
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September 27, 2018 - The Federal Transit Administration on September 25 announced the winning applicants for $366 million in federal...
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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,...