ISSUE / Week of January 29, 2018
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Bridges,Federal BudgetFebruary 02,2018State of the Union Speech Increases Expectations for Highly Leveraged Infrastructure Bill
February 2, 2018 President Trump's first real State of the Union address on January 30 to a joint session of Congress did indeed contain a long mention of his (long-awaited) infrastructure... -
March 2, 2018 As noted elsewhere in this issue, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are currently negotiating the fiscal 2018 omnibus appropriations bill using far more money than...
GAO: Progress is Already Being Made on Permitting Reform, but More Data Is Needed
February 2, 2018 In 2005, 2012, and 2015, Congress enacted three rounds of new laws with the goal of decreasing project delivery time for transportation projects, most notably through...
Mobility-as-a-Service: Coming to a City Near You Soon…
February 2, 2018 Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has been defined as: A combination of public and private transportation services within a given regional environment that provides holistic,...
Trump Nominates Board Members for Amtrak, MWAA
February 2, 2018 President Trump today announced his intention to nominate new members of the Boards of Directors of Amtrak and of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The Amtrak...
House Hearing Looks at Surface Transportation Security Technology
February 2, 2018 On January 30, the House Homeland Security Committee’s Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications and Transportation and Protective Services Subcommittees held a joint...
Senate Commerce Discusses Emerging Threats to Surface Transportation
January 31, 2018 As a response to the rise in international terrorist attacks involving multiple surface transportation modes, a Senate subcommittee held a hearing on January 23 to review...
Bringing MPOs Into the FAST Era
February 2, 2018 Since metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) were first formed in early 1960s, their core mission has been to perform long term surface capital planning and act as a local...
How Does the Federal Government Subsidize Air Service to Small Communities?
January 31, 2018 Today the Eno Center for Transportation released the tenth policy brief in the Eno Aviation Insights series – How does the federal government subsidize air service to small...
Transportation and Infrastructure in the State of the Union Address, 1997-2017
January 30, 2018 As we all await President Trump's State of the Union address tonight, in which he is expected to give some details of his forthcoming infrastructure plan, it is worth looking back...
Understanding NHTSA’s Voluntary Approach to Automated Vehicles
February 2, 2018 Over the past several years, collaboration with industry - rather than prescriptive regulations - has become the cornerstone of the federal government’s strategy for overseeing...