Few budget amendments have been broader in their scope than the ones submitted by Ronald Reagan in March and April 1981 for the fiscal year 1982 budget. Of particular note are the proposed aviation excise…
Wednesday, January 28, is the 100th anniversary of President Wilson’s signing of the law that created the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Act combined two existing services: the Revenue Cutter Service (founded 1797, basically tax…
On January 21, 1915, the Congressional Joint Committee on Federal Aid in the Construction of Post Roads issued its final report to Congress. The report of the Joint Committee represented, by far, the largest assemblage…
Article from the July 1966 issue of the Eno Foundation’s Traffic Quarterly by Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation Alan Boyd advocating the Johnson Administration’s proposal for the creation of a new U.S. Department of…
This is the full civil engineering study from the 1959 Mass Transportation Survey of the National Capital Region, the first official federal study to recommend the creation of a mass transit system in the Washington…
Someone once asked me if all of the transportation policy history articles I have written for ETW were collected in one place. They were not, so now they are. Multi-Part Series: A Conversation With Alan Boyd, the First U.S. Secretary of Transportation Part 1 (February…
For over a quarter century, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) worked to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment. From its earliest days impacting the landmark Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, STPP was always on the vanguard of transportation reform in the United States.
Eno is proud to host the archive of STPP’s website which contains a repository of STPP reports, information, and activities.