Issues & Modes / Funding & Finance
Superstorm Sandy: Adaptation and Resilience in the Tolling Industry
Jul 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY PATRICK D. JONES Executive Director & CEO, International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association The International Bridge,...
Public-Private Partnerships For Transportation Finance: Some Say Better Mousetrap… Some Say Necessary Evil
Jun 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY JONATHAN GUILFORD Professor, Director, Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy, George Mason...
The Road From SAFETEA-LU to GROW AMERICA
May 25, 2014 | Emil FrankelLast week we saw the first Administration-authored, publicly released surface transportation bill since 2003. In examining the arc of...
Federal Prohibitions on Toll Roads, How They Got There, and How the GROW AMERICA Act Proposes to Change Them
May 06, 2014 | Jeff DavisMay 6, 2014 Let’s just say that Congress has been having this debate for a really long time. The first law providing federal...
California: Helping Themselves to a Brighter Future
Mar 24, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY KYLE MOTYCKA Business Development and Proposal Manager - Rail Veolia Transportation Maintenance & Infrastructure,...
The Bell Tolls for User-based Funding
Mar 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONLast month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has proposed a specific funding source for...
Three Ideas for Big City Departments of Transportation
Feb 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThe United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of these...
Is It Time to Dismantle the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey?
Feb 24, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY DAVID Z. PLAVIN Like living organisms, public authorities seem to have a finite life cycle. They come into being to serve a...
The Challenge of National Freight Policy: How to Pay For It?
Jan 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION2014 could be the year that a national freight policy begins to take focus in a new authorization bill. There have been several...
Completing Projects With Less Funding: Sound Transit’s Success Story
Jan 20, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY JONI EARL Chief Executive Officer Sound Transit Many transit agencies were hit hard by the recession; what added dimension to...
2013 Transportation Weekly Archive Index
Dec 31, 2013 | Jeff Davis2013 Transportation Weekly Archive Index January 2013 January 16, 2013 issue January 21, 2013 update ...
Is a Gas Tax Increase Actually Desirable?
Dec 26, 2013 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONNew proposed legislation in the House has generated some excitement, at least in the media, about the possibility of a gas tax increase...