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.

Superstorm Sandy: Adaptation and Resilience in the Tolling Industry
Jul 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY PATRICK D. JONES Executive Director & CEO, International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike...
Infrastructure in the United States: The Dangers of Living Below Our Means
Jul 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY LESLIE BLAKEY President & Executive Director, Coalition for America's Gateways & Trade Corridors Infrastructure was at the heart of...
3D Printers: Changing Transportation As We Know It
Jun 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY BILL ANKNER Principal, Transportation Solutions President Obama’s shout out for 3D printing in his 2012 State of the Union[1]...
Countdown to Mainstreaming of Self-Driving Vehicles
May 25, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY EVA LERNER-LAM President, Palisades Consulting Group, Inc. There is a lot of excitement today about the concept of so-called...
The Road From SAFETEA-LU to GROW AMERICA
May 25, 2014 | Emil Frankel
Last week we saw the first Administration-authored, publicly released surface transportation bill since 2003. In examining the arc of national...
Federal Prohibitions on Toll Roads, How They Got There, and How the GROW AMERICA Act Proposes to Change Them
May 6, 2014 | Jeff Davis
Let’s just say that Congress has been having this debate for a really long time. The first law providing federal...
Improving Transportation = Better Quality of Life for City Dwellers
Apr 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY RICHARD HARRIS Solution Director, Xerox Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) refers to a wide range of services that use information...
Transportation and Technological Change: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles
Apr 24, 2014
There is tremendous excitement in the transportation world about the idea of self-driving vehicles, also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs)....
America’s Infrastructure Crisis Isn’t Overstated
Mar 24, 2014 | Carter Templeton
BY BRIAN PALLASCH Managing Director of Government Relations and Infrastructure Initiatives American Society of Civil Engineers JANET KAVINOKY Executive Director...
The Bell Tolls for User-based Funding
Mar 24, 2014
Last month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has...
Three Ideas for Big City Departments of Transportation
Feb 24, 2014
The United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of...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,...
