“The Green New Deal will include a shift in transportation systems away from fossil fuels, according to a still-vague draft released to the press on Thursday. It’s a “slogan in search of specific policy solutions,”…
This table shows how much “spendable” highway funding states will receive in fiscal year 2018.
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…
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.
FAQ document released by the U.S. Department of Transportation on June 28, 2017 describing the new INFRA surface transportation grant program (formally known as the FASTLANE program).
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…
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…
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…
Draft Reorganization Plan from the Truman Administration creating a Federal Transportation Agency to include all functions currently exercised by the Public Roads Administration, the Coast Guard, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the…
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…
(Anyone wanting a complete history of ISTEA would be well advised to read this article by Richard Weingroff from Public Roads magazine in 2001.) The Administration Proposal The 1990 National Transportation Policy (“Moving America: New…
The final volume of the George H.W. Bush Administration’s National Transportation Policy process, this February 1990 report from the U.S. Department of Transportation summarizes the national transportation policy themes and goals of the Bush Administration,…
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