ISSUE / Weeks of July 31 and August 7, 2017
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Appropriations,Federal BudgetAugust 09,2017 |Is the Mass Transit “New Starts” Program Fundamentally Flawed – and Can Congress Fix It Without Earmarks?
August 9, 2017 The Trump Administration picked a big fight with Congress early on in the transportation budget. In its budget overview on March 13, the White House indicated its budget would limit... -
August 9, 2017 International air travel in and out of the United States more than doubled since 1990. Coinciding with that growth, the United States negotiated over 100 agreements with other...
Ensure Fair and Free Competition Under All of Our Open Skies Agreements
August 08, 2017 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONAugust 9, 2017 Fair and free trade is a cornerstone of our great country and essential to ensuring American economic strength and growth. When I served as President Reagan’s Secretary of...
Open Skies, Subsidies, and the Need for Transparency
August 08, 2017 | Rui NeivaAugust 9, 2017 Open Skies agreements are treaties between two countries to allow unlimited air service between them. Since the United States' first accord was signed with the Netherlands in 1992...
USDOT Announces $79M Tranche of FY17 FASTLANE Grants
August 09, 2017 | Jeff DavisAugust 9, 2017 The U.S. Department of Transportation on August 2 notified Congress that Secretary Chao has selected ten projects to receive a total of $79 million grants in the first tranche of...
Why Isn’t the Transportation Sector More Engaged in Student Transportation?
August 08, 2017 | Jennifer AumentThe largest mass transit system in the country isn’t commercial bus, train, or air service — or even all those systems combined. The largest mass transit system includes 500,000 vehicles and...
CBO Issues Updated, but Still-Incomplete, Score of House FAA Bill
August 16, 2017 | Jeff DavisAugust 16, 2017 The Congressional Budget Office has issued an updated, but still incomplete, score of the budgetary impact of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill approved by...
Transit in Crisis: Who Should Pay for Upgrades – Riders, or Taxpayers?
August 09, 2017 | Alice GrossmanAugust 9, 2017 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill De Blasio have spent the past three years of playing the blame game on who should fund essential upgrades to the New York City subway...
Transportation Measures Defeated in Yesterday’s Balloting
August 09, 2017 | Robert Puentes and Owain JamesAugust 9, 2017 While federal lawmakers in Washington continue to struggle to find new ways to invest in infrastructure, states and localities are going to their voters for help. In November 2016,...
FTA Announces Proposed Rule for Private Investment in Transit
August 09, 2017 | Greg RogersAugust 9, 2017 The Trump Administration’s mission to “unleash” private investment in transportation projects continued last week when the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a...
History of Mass Transit Discretionary Grants and How They Have Been Funded
August 09, 2017 | Jeff DavisAugust 9, 2017 An organized federal role in mass transit began in 1964 with the Urban Mass Transit Act (P.L. 88-365). Section 3 of that Act authorized the Housing and Home Finance Administrator...
Interview with Nat Parker, CEO of moovel
August 09, 2017 | Greg RogersETW recently spoke with Nat Parker, CEO of moovel, a Daimler-owned company that is works with city agencies to expand residents’ mobility options by seamlessly connecting them with public transit,...