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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Text of Public Law 244 of the 67th Congress. The first-ever creation of contract authority occurred in this act, as...
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Text of Public Law 87 of the 67th Congress. The Federal Highway Act of 1921 required states to designated 7...
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Text of Public Law 156 of the 64th Congress, the Act of July 11, 1916 provided the first federal appropriations...
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 2005 SAFETEA-LU authorization law.
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1978 authorization law.
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1976 authorization law.
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September 10, 2015 - Now that he has become the front-runner in public polling for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination,...
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September 10, 2015 - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has called off a markup of the surface transportation reauthorization...
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(More amendments, all of which are “limitation” amendments (“no funds in this act may be used for such-and-such”) were offered...
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Historical look at federal transportation infrastructure grants to states and localities over the FY 1941 - 2014 period.
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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,...