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 major metropolitan areas like New York, transportation challenges dominate headlines and for good reason. The data firm Inrix recently...
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April 13, 2018 - Today, the bipartisan leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced a revised version of...
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Tuesday, April 17 - House Appropriations - Subcommittee on Homeland Security - subcommittee hearing on the FY 2019 budget request...
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April 6, 2018 - The recently enacted FY18 appropriations bill makes $916 million available for new subway, light rail, streetcar...
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Monday, April 9 - the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual budget and economic outlook, including revised projections for Highway...
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April 5, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the recipients of $264.4 million in grants for buses...
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April 5, 2018 - Newly released data from the Federal Highway Administration shows that eight states actually achieved highway "donor...
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April 5, 2018 - The fiscal 2018 spending caps were raised by another $558 million this week, but very quietly....
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April 3, 2018 - The cost of increasing the federal gasoline tax just got lower. (The financial cost to general...
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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,...