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.
BY DAVID Z. PLAVIN Like living organisms, public authorities seem to have a finite life cycle. They come into being...
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2014 could be the year that a national freight policy begins to take focus in a new authorization bill. There...
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BY ROGER DOW President and CEO, U.S. Travel Association Last weekend millions of Americans struggled to get where they wanted...
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BY EDWARD J. REGAN Senior Vice President, CDM Smith MICHAEL TOWNES VICE PRESIDENT, TRANSIT SERVICES LEADER, CDM SMITH Neither transit...
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Senator Barbara Boxer made headlines, at least in the small transportation world, when she said that she was leaning towards...
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The advice often given to incoming members of the President’s Cabinet is to pick three issues on which to focus...
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When President Obama gave his State of the Union speech to Congress last month, the transportation community reaction was mixed....
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BY ERIC PETERSON Transportation Policy Consultant, Former Deputy Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration at the U.S. Department...
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2013 promises to be an eventful year for federal policy-making. The entire tax code and virtually all domestic spending programs...
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BY ERIC PETERSON Transportation Policy Consultant, Former Deputy Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration at the U.S. Department...
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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,...