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There are over 4 million miles of roads in the United States moving cars, trucks, transit, and non-motorized vehicles across a seamless, integrated network. About three-quarters of the roads are owned by localities but the vast majority of travel occurs on major state roads and the federally-designated Interstate System. Today, this complex system is under strain as demands for upgrades and repair, safety improvements, and modernization mount.

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Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths Among Children

August 31, 2023
Aug 31, 2023 | Glendedora Dolce
August 31, 2023 - Amidst a sobering backdrop, the article "Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths Among Children" delves into the distressing...
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Why US States and Cities are Failing to Reduce Road Traffic Deaths

August 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023 | Anusha Chitturi, Glendedora Dolce
August 18, 2023 - Road traffic fatalities in the United States increased at the rate of 3 percent annually between...
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State and Local Governments Hold the Key to Lower Road Traffic Deaths

July 28, 2023
Jul 28, 2023 | Anusha Chitturi, Glendedora Dolce
July 28, 2023 - The United States has a notoriously high traffic death rate per capita among the OECD countries....
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Highway Construction Costs Dropped 1.1% in Oct-Dec 2022 Quarter

July 14, 2023
Jul 14, 2023 | Jeff Davis
July 14, 2023 - After almost two years of explosive growth, the Federal Highway Administration's metric of highway construction costs...
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FHWA Resolves $2.5 Billion of Its Accounting Discrepancy

July 14, 2023
Jul 14, 2023 | Jeff Davis
July 14, 2023 - The Federal Highway Administration has resolved $2.5 billion of its $3.5 billion accounting discrepancy that was...
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Philadelphia Highway Collapse Will Cost Time and Money

June 13, 2023
Jun 13, 2023 | Michael Gerstein
Unpredictable, but not unprecedented. In 2017, a fire caused a critical portion of I-85 in Atlanta to collapse. But workers rebuilt...
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DOT Announces $296 Million in Bridge Grants

April 14, 2023
Apr 14, 2023 | Jeff Davis
April 14, 2023 - This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced $295.7 million in funding for nine competitive selectees...
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DOT Opens Applications for $625M in EV Charging Grants

March 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023 | Jeff Davis
March 17, 2023 - The Biden Administration announced that the first $625 million of an eventual $2+ billion provided by...
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ETW Exclusive: How Hundreds of Millions in Highway Funding Was Almost Lost Last Summer

February 24, 2023
Feb 24, 2023 | Jeff Davis
February 24, 2023 - Last August, the Federal Highway Administration almost let $250 million in highway funding lapse forever, unspent,...
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Biden Nominates Ann Carlson to Head NHTSA

February 17, 2023
Feb 17, 2023 | Jeff Davis
February 17, 2023 - President Biden announced on February 13 that he will nominate Ann Carlson, the Deputy Administrator of...
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FHWA Reveals Possible $3.5 Billion Highway Funding Overstatement

February 3, 2023
Feb 3, 2023 | Jeff Davis
February 3, 2023 - The Federal Highway Administration told Congress this week that $3.5 billion in federal-aid highway contract authority...
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Initial HTF Formula Funding Given to States for FY23 Is $1.1 Billion Less than FY22

February 3, 2023
Feb 3, 2023 | Jeff Davis
February 3, 2023 - The Federal Highway Administration this week notified state DOTs that they would be able to obligate...
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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,...

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