Infrastructure Plan Stalled
Jeff Davis, Eno Senior Fellow and Editor of Eno Transportation Weekly, talks about the reduced buying power of the gas tax to pay for infrastructure repair.
Tag Archive for: Highways
FY 2018 Highway Obligation Limitation – State-by-State Distribution
This table shows how much “spendable” highway funding states will receive in fiscal year 2018.
FY 2018 Highway Obligation Limitation – Step by Step Calculation
This document shows the step-by-step distribution of the fiscal 2018 obligation limitation on the federal-aid highways program – how it starts out at $44.234 billion, and all of the set-asides that result in only $36.4…
Hypothetical Distribution of $40 Billion in Rural Infrastructure Funding
This is a table dated February 23, 2018 hypothesizing how the Trump Administration’s proposed $40 billion in rural infrastructure formula funding would be distributed to states if the two formula factors proposed by the Administration…
1978 Carter Message to Congress on Highway and Transit Programs
This is House Document 95-284, President Carter’s message to Congress of January 26, 1978 transmitting his proposed highway and mass transit reauthorization bill.
Transportation Weekly – 2002 History of Highway Earmarks
This is a copy of the April 10, 2002 issue of Transportation Weekly that contained a history of federally earmarked highway projects.
Transportation Weekly – 2006 Study of SAFETEA-LU Earmarks
This is a copy of the January 17, 2006 issue of Transportation Weekly that contained a complete attribution of the $6.9 billion in “above the line” earmarks of highway projects in the 2005 SAFETEA-LU law.
FY 2018 Highway Apportionments to States (Total)
One-page table showing apportionments of highway contract authority to states for fiscal year 2018 under the FAST Act. Numbers are taken from FHWA Notice 4510.816 but the NHPP total has also been reduced slightly for…
Summary of October 1954 Clay Committee Hearings
This is a 16-page confidential summary of the October 1954 hearings of the President’s Advisory Committee on a National Highway System (the “Clay Committee”) prepared by the committee’s staff director, Frank Turner.
October 1954 Clay Committee Hearings – Transcript
This is a PDF of the stenographer’s transcript of the hearings held on October 7 and 8, 1954, by the President’s Advisory Committee on a National Highway Program. (The panel was often referred to as…
Appropriations Earmarks of Mass Transit “New Starts” Pre-ISTEA
This is a 19-page PDF file showing every Congressional earmark of a mass transit “new start” project in an appropriations bill or conference report prior to the enactment of the 1991 ISTEA surface transportation authorization…
Scenario Planning Resources: New Approaches to Support the Next Generation of Scenario Planning in Transportation
Communities constantly evolve and change in response to social, political, economic, technological and environmental forces. Effectively planning for this kind of change in transportation requires the cultivation of a participatory and informed decision-making process that…