History of the Tolling Ban on Federal-Aid Highways
The first law providing federal aid to states for construction and maintenance of roads was enacted almost a century ago, in 1916.
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By Jeff Davis
The first law providing federal aid to states for construction and maintenance of roads was enacted almost a century ago, in 1916.
This is a copy of the April 10, 2002 issue of Transportation Weekly that contained a history of federally earmarked highway projects.
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.
By Jeff Davis
January 15, 2017 – Today was the 50th anniversary of the deadliest highway bridge disaster in U.S. history – the collapse of the “Silver Bridge” between Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio, which killed 46 people. Ten years ago, in the wake of another fatal bridge collapse, Congress seemed on the verge of expanding the existing highway bridge program, but over the next five years, attitudes towards how to best deal with the problems of bridge safety and capacity turned completely around and led to the MAP-21 law abolishing the bridge program entirely in favor of a more holistic performance-based highway-and-bridge asset management program.
By Jeff Davis
Timeline of Key Moments in Federal Bridge Policy
By Paul Lewis
December 8, 2017 – Virginia has always restricted peak hour use of I-66 inside the Beltway to vehicles with two or more occupants. That changed on December 4, when for the first time the state began allowing vehicles with only one occupant to use the roadway, subject to a toll that varies based on demand. High occupant vehicles (HOV) with two or more people could still drive for free.
By Jeff Davis
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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…
June 16, 2017 – The Federal Highway Administration has released the end-of-year 2016 Urban Congestion Report (UCR). The report includes data from the 52 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States measuring congestion, travel time, and travel time reliability for trucks and passenger vehicles on the National Highway System.
The rise of urban freeways offers a number of lessons on how to manage new transportation technologies. AVs promise changes on a wide scale and, depending on how they are rolled out, could have positive or negative effects on communities and the environment.
May 25, 2017 – On May 19, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) codified rulemaking to establish new performance management requirements as required under the 2012 and 2015 surface transportation bills, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.
By Jeff Davis
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