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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.

Capitol Hill Events – Week of March 11, 2017

March 9, 2017
Mar 9, 2017 | Jeff Davis
Tuesday, March 14 – Senate Energy and Natural Resources – full committee hearing on opportunities to improve American energy infrastructure (witness...
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Trump Again Gives $1T Infrastructure Total With No Details

March 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 | Jeff Davis
March 3, 2017 - President Trump addressed his first joint session of Congress on February 28 and again reiterated his...
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2016 VMT Redux – How Does It Affect Safety and Costs?

March 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 | Jeff Davis
March 3, 2017 - How do the new estimates of vehicle miles-traveled for 2016 relate to highway fatalities and to...
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Virginia, Maryland Jurisdictions Pay Price for WMATA Woes

February 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 | Greg Rogers
February 24, 2017 - The embattled Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) once again has its back on the ropes...
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Self-Driving Cars and Hot Potatoes Have Something in Common

February 24, 2017
Feb 24, 2017 | Paul Lewis
February 24, 2017 - Recent observations of how humans act behind the wheel of Level 2 autonomous vehicles, such as...
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Stakeholders Push Multimodal Investment

February 24, 2017
Feb 24, 2017 | Greg Rogers
February 24, 2017 - On February 15, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a hearing entitled Moving America:...
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Traffic Fatalities Highest in a Decade

February 24, 2017
Feb 24, 2017 | Greg Rogers
February 24, 2017 - Traffic fatalities last year were the highest since the Great Recession in an alarming trend that...
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VMT Hits Nominal High, Approaches All-Time Per Capita Mark

February 24, 2017
Feb 24, 2017 | Jeff Davis
February 23, 2017 - The Federal Highway Administration announced this week that in 2016, vehicle miles-traveled on all U.S. roads...
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New Bipartisan Coalition Stresses Infrastructure Needs

February 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 | Greg Rogers
February 17, 2017 - On Monday, February 13, the Bipartisan Policy Center announced the launch of the Coalition to Modernize...
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Industry Urges Congress to Act on Autonomous Vehicles

February 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 | Greg Rogers
February 17, 2017 - At a February 14 hearing before House Energy & Commerce’s newly-minted Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection...
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FHWA Performance Measures Rule Delayed As Part of Trump Regulatory Freeze

February 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 | Jeff Davis
February 17, 2017 - Federal agencies are continuing to implement the regulatory "freeze order" from the White House, including a...
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Life in the FASTLANE: Recommendations for Improving Federal Freight Grants

February 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION
This paper examines the first round of FASTLANE projects and discusses several options for Congress and the Administration to improve...
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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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