Author: Jeff Davis
USDOT Solicits FY20 BUILD Grant Applications
Feb 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisThis week, the U.S. Department of Transportation invited applications for $1 billion in fiscal 2020 multimodal surface transportation...
FY21 Appropriations Process Begins Next Week
Feb 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe House and Senate Appropriations Committees are starting the fiscal 2021 appropriations process next week, with a slate of committee...
Democratic Candidates Outline Their Infrastructure Ideas
Feb 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisFour of the Democratic presidential candidates took part in a moderated discussion of infrastructure issues in Las Vegas on February...
FY21 Homeland Budget Request Echoes Last Few Requests
Feb 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Trump Administration's 2021 budget request for the transportation elements of the Department of Homeland Security reiterates...
Federal Capital Investment Outlays to Rise Sharply Under FY21 Budget
Feb 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisBuried in the annual Analytical Perspectives volume of the federal budget is a chapter called "Federal Investment" that pulls out...
Total FY20 Highway Formula Funding So Far is $208M Below FY19
Feb 21, 2020 | Jeff DavisWhen the $2.0 billion in fiscal year 2020 general fund appropriations for highway formula programs given to states last Friday is...
Highway Funding: The Value of Being Able to Write Your Own Formula
Feb 20, 2020 | Jeff DavisSenators from states that don't think they get enough money under the existing highway formula have started to use the annual...
Comprehensive Statements of National Transportation Policy
Feb 19, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe concept of "national transportation policy" is a mid-20th-century phenomenon. Before 1937, "transportation" was thought of by...
What 4 Years of Trump’s Transportation Budgets Add Up To
Feb 18, 2020 | Jeff DavisJeff Davis provides commentary on President Donald Trump’s 2021 budget request.
FHWA Gives Out $2B in FY20 General Fund Highway Formula Funding
Feb 14, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration has apportioned to states the $2 billion in additional highway formula funding from general revenues...
The FY21 Transit CIG Budget: LA Westside 3 Added, Portal North Upgraded, Significant New Funding Requested
Feb 14, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Trump Administration's fiscal 2021 budget request includes $1.9 billion for the Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment...
How Much of a Gas Tax Increase Would the Trump Reauthorization Plan Require?
Feb 14, 2020 | Jeff DavisAfter we had a couple of days to digest the Trump Administration's ten-year, $810 million surface transportation reauthorization...