ISSUE / Week of April 10, 2017
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April 18, 2017 On April 5, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee held a hearing to review implementation of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L....
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April 14, 2017 The big programmatic cuts in transportation proposed in President Trump’s proposed “skinny” budget for discretionary programs can be divided into two types. First, there...
A Robot Tax Would Help or Harm the Transportation Sector – Maybe Both
April 14, 2017 | Stanford Turner and Greg RogersApril 14, 2017 Recent leaps forward in automation – including self-driving cars, delivery drones, artificial intelligence, and other technologies – are casting an increased focus on the...
How Would the Budget Scoring of Air Traffic Control Reform Work?
April 14, 2017 | Jeff DavisApril 14, 2017 After a long period of study, the Eno Center’s Aviation Working Group recommended that the United States follow the model adopted by most other developed nations and separate the...
California Enacts Significant Gas Tax Increase
April 14, 2017 | Jeff DavisApril 14, 2017 Last week, the California legislature enacted a package of tax and fee increases on highway users, including gasoline and diesel fuel excise tax hikes, designed to raise an...
Cities Now Exploring Autonomous Buses – But Is It Worth It?
April 14, 2017 | Greg RogersApril 14, 2017 Add Arlington, Texas to your mental list of cities conducting local tests of driverless shuttles. On March 28, the City Council of Arlington, Texas approved a six-month...
A Note on the Legacy of Airline Deregulation
April 13, 2017 | Jeff DavisApril 18, 2017 Airline customer service has been much in the news this week, and not in a good way. Since the federal government stopped regulating the fares that airlines could charge and the...
Eno Selects Candidate from Georgia Tech for 2017 Thomas J. O’Bryant Fellowship
April 14, 2017 | Ann HeneberyApril 14, 2017 The Eno Center for Transportation has selected Alice Grossman for the Eno Summer 2017 Thomas J. O’Bryant Transportation Policy and Finance Fellowship. This fellowship is...