Memo from Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater to President Clinton dated February 24, 1997 where Slater requests that the President approve the draft NEXTEA surface transportation reauthorization bill authored by DOT and transmit the bill to…
Overview Automated vehicles are challenging the status quo of transportation networks and the policies that support them. The technology is developing quickly and has the potential to make roadways safer, more efficient, and more accessible…
Documents relating to President Johnson’s June 1967 order consolidating federal highway safety functions and federal motor vehicle safety functions into one entity, which is now NHTSA.
This is a PDF of the “memo for the record” by General John Stewart Bragdon, President Eisenhower’s public works advisor on the White House staff, recounting a meeting held on December 13, 1954 in which…
This is a May 4, 1954 letter from New York City planning czar Robert Moses and New York State Public Works Commissioner (and future Federal Highway Administrator) Bertram Tallamy to President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff,…
Through a series of panel discussions, workshops, webinars, and consultation with Eno’s Digital Cities Advisory Board, Eno crafted a multifaceted set of recommendations that address the most pressing policy issues for AVs. If applied and…
FHWA publication explaining the finances of the federal-aid highway program under the 1987 authorization law (STURAA).
Large (25 MB) PDF file containing a brief narrative of the 1987 highway bill veto fight along with 321 pages of original documents detailing the behind-the-scenes debates and compromises, taken from the Reagan Library and…
This paper examines the first round of FASTLANE projects and discusses several options for Congress and the Administration to improve upon the program.
11-page document released by Senate Democrats at a January 24, 2017 press conference outlining the broad strokes of a plan to spend $1 trillion over 10 years on infrastructure, including highways, mass transit, aviation, water,…
White House Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. 3566 (102nd Congress). H.R. 3566 was a revised version of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act (H.R. 2950) without the 5 cent per gallon gas tax increase…
Statement of Administration Policy from the White House detailing a veto threat against the Senate’s version of the 1991 surface transportation reauthorization (S. 1204). Dated June 11, 1991.