Jeff Davis is a Senior Fellow with the Eno Center for Transportation and is also the Editor of the Eno Transportation Weekly.
Jeff came to Washington in 1988 to attend The American University and soon began working on Capitol Hill for the ranking minority member of the House Rules Committee. For six years he worked on a wide variety of legislative, budget process oversight and parliamentary procedure issues.
In January 1996 Jeff joined a transportation consulting firm and worked extensively on the FAA, Amtrak and surface transportation reauthorization laws in 1996-1998 as well as various appropriations bills. He founded his own research and consulting business in June 1998 and published Transportation Weekly, a news service covering federal transportation and public works, from 1999-2014.
He joined the Eno Center in January 2015. His work focuses on analysis of the federal transportation budget and the long-term trends in transportation funding and policy.
Follow him on Twitter at @JDwithTW
Eno Transportation Weekly Articles
New York MTA Sues FTA for 2nd Avenue Reimbursements
March 20, 2026
March 20, 2026 – New York City’s mass transit agency has filed a lawsuit asking for the Federal Transit Administration to pay $58.6 million in unpaid bills from the Second Avenue Subway project.
Surface Reauthorization: What Is the "Baseline" Spending Level for a New Bill?
March 20, 2026
March 20, 2026 - As Congress prepares to reauthorize surface transportation spending and policies in a multi-year bill, it’s worth considering the question of what, exactly, is the “baseline” funding level – the starting point...
