ISSUE / Weeks of February 6 and 13, 2023
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Appropriations,FY24February 16,2023 |New CBO Budget Projections Are Bad News for THUD Appropriations
Buried in the supporting data of the new Congressional Budget Office Budget and Economic Outlook for the fiscal 2024 budget cycle released this week is bad news for the FY 2024 Transportation-Housing... -
WorkforceFebruary 17,2023 |
Building Tomorrow’s Transportation Workforce: New Eno Report Offers Guidance
Two key pieces of recent federal legislation--the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)--provide hundreds of billions of dollars to state and local...
Annual Highway Trust Fund Forecast: Lower Tax Receipts; More Interest, but AATF In Better Shape
February 17, 2023 | Jeff DavisAs part of its annual budget outlook update, the Congressional Budget Office this week released an updated 10-year projection of Highway Trust Fund cash flow, and the future is as grim as ever. The...
CBO Accelerates Prediction of Gas Tax Decline; Sees Recovery of Aviation Tax Base
February 17, 2023 | Jeff DavisAs part of its annual budget outlook release this week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office updated its 10-year federal excise tax forecast and predicts that the annual decline in gasoline...
Projection Discretion is Advised: CBO Releases FY23 Transportation Funding Baseline
February 17, 2023 | Jeff DavisThe new budget baseline from the Congressional Budget Office, released this week, sums up total funding provided by Congress for the transportation budget function for the ongoing fiscal year as...
Moving MaaS 3: Helsinki Happenings
February 17, 2023 | Jonathan HammondToday, city inhabitants have access to almost a dozen different modes of transportation. However, almost a dozen different modes of transportation require almost a dozen different apps, payment...
How Do Federal Transportation Trust Funds Invest Their Money?
February 17, 2023 | Jeff DavisLast month, the Treasury Department overhauled the way it presents the data in its monthly reports on how it manages the 20 federal trust fund accounts. The new format provides unprecedented...
Biden Nominates Ann Carlson to Head NHTSA
February 17, 2023 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden announced on February 13 that he will nominate Ann Carlson, the Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to head that agency. The nomination will be...
House T&I Holds Wide-Ranging Aviation Hearing
February 10, 2023 | Robert PuentesOn Tuesday, February 7, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a broad hearing on aviation as a first step in the reauthorization process for the federal aviation law, which...
Senate Panel Looks At Last Christmas’s Southwest Meltdown
February 10, 2023 | Jeff DavisWhen Southwest Airlines was having its epic meltdown of flight cancelations during the peak Christmas 2022 flight period, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee chairman Maria Cantwell...