Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.
August 16, 2017 - The Congressional Budget Office has issued an updated, but still incomplete, score of the budgetary impact...
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August 9, 2017 - Is the mass transit new starts program fundamentally flawed because it tries to support long, multi-year...
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August 9, 2017 - The history of how Congress has funded the mass transit "new starts" program over the years.
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This is a 19-page PDF file showing every Congressional earmark of a mass transit "new start" project in an appropriations...
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August 4, 2017 - A pair of recent court rulings in the last eight days have opened the way for...
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Table showing every budget account in the fiscal 2018 U.S. Department of Transportation budget under the Senate appropriations bill, compared...
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July 25, 2017 - 1:30 p.m. Earlier today, the Senate Transportation-Housing Subcommittee approved draft legislation appropriating $19.5 billion for the...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...