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
Surface Reauthorization May Not Hit House Floor Until Mid-July
June 12, 2026
It now looks like the surface transportation reauthorization bill (H.R. 8870) may not reach the House floor until mid-July at the earliest.
House Bill Fails to Address Outdated Highway Formula: Part 1
June 12, 2026
The pending House surface transportation bill does a lot of big things, but it does not touch perhaps the most oudated part of the transportation funding process: the highway funding formula itself.
