Issue / Interstate Highway System
History of the Tolling Ban on Federal-Aid Highways
Jan 23, 2018 | Jeff Davis[First published in Transportation Weekly on May 6, 2014] The first law providing federal aid to states for construction and...
Transportation Weekly – 2002 History of Highway Earmarks
Jan 18, 2018 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThis 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
Jan 18, 2018 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThis is a copy of the January 17, 2006 issue of Transportation Weekly that contained a complete attribution of the $6.9 billion in...
How Has Federal Bridge Policy Changed Since the I-35W Collapse?
Dec 16, 2017 | Jeff DavisDecember 15, 2017 Today was the 50th anniversary of the deadliest highway bridge disaster in U.S. history - the collapse of the...
Timeline of Key Moments in Federal Bridge Policy
Dec 14, 2017 | Jeff Davis1824 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Gibbons v. Ogden (22 U.S. 1) that Congress has complete authority over navigation relating to...
I-66 Shows the Cost of Urban Roadway Access – And It Isn’t Cheap
Dec 08, 2017 | Paul LewisDecember 8, 2017 Northern Virginia is realizing the consequence of its success. A growing economy and increasing population mean...
Debate Terms Set for Transportation, Homeland Portions of FY18 Omnibus Appropriations
Sep 06, 2017 | Jeff DavisSeptember 6, 2017 - 12:15 A.M. The House Rules Committee at 10:45 p.m. last night approved terms for debate for the Department of...
January 24, 1958 Cabinet Meeting on Highways
Aug 17, 2017 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThis PDF file pertains to President Eisenhower's Cabinet meeting held on January 24, 1958. One of the items of discussion was the new...
October 1954 Clay Committee Hearings – Transcript
Aug 16, 2017 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThis 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...
FHWA Releases Annual Urban Congestion Report
Jun 16, 2017 | Alice GrossmanJune 16, 2017 The Federal Highway Administration has released the end-of-year 2016 Urban Congestion Report (UCR). The report...
An “Unprecedented Mobility Revolution?” We’ve Been Here Before
Jun 08, 2017 | William Leimenstoll“They are designed to make automobile collisions impossible and to eliminate completely traffic congestion.” Norman Bel Geddes,...
FHWA Codifies Performance Management Requirements, Excludes GHG Emissions
May 25, 2017 | Alice GrossmanMay 25, 2017 On May 19, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) codified rulemaking to establish new performance management...