Issues & Modes / Funding & Finance
DOT Has Issued NOFOs for Almost 2/3rds of FY22 IIJA Competitive Funding
Oct 14, 2022 | Jeff DavisAs of the close of this week, the U.S. Department of Transportation has made available almost two-thirds of the estimated $24.9 billion...
FTA Offers $600M for Transit Rail Car Replacement Grants
Oct 14, 2022 | Jeff DavisIf at first you can't get a new grant program up and running before the first year's worth of funding rolls over, then go ahead and put...
FHWA Gives States $59.9B in IIJA Highway Formula Funding
Oct 14, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration on October 6 formally apportioned $59.9 billion in highway funding to states via formula. The money...
Counterintuitive: What If Access to Dedicated Revenues Actually Holds You Back?
Sep 30, 2022 | Jeff Davis50 years ago this month, the biennial highway reauthorization bill was on its way to defeat for the first time. The cause was the...
Congress Clears CR to Dec. 16 After Removing Manchin Permitting Reforms
Sep 30, 2022 | Jeff DavisCongress has cleared an eleven-week continuing resolution (CR) providing stopgap appropriations for the fiscal year that starts at...
Manchin Permitting Reforms Revealed; Senate Test Vote on Tuesday
Sep 23, 2022 | Jeff DavisSen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has finally released the text of his environmental permitting reform bill, which Congressional leaders have...
GAO Finds That – Surprise! – Senior Appropriators Get More Earmarks
Sep 23, 2022 | Jeff DavisIn the fiscal 2022 appropriations cycle, Congress resurrected the practice of earmarking individual projects for themselves in the...
Federal Judge Finds Rhode Island’s Truck Tolls on Interstate Bridges Unconstitutional
Sep 23, 2022 | Jeff DavisA federal judge this week ruled that Rhode Island's system of bridge tolls on heavy trucks is an unconstitutional restriction on...
Still No Clarity on Stopgap Continuing Appropriations
Sep 16, 2022 | Jeff DavisToday is September 16, which means that fiscal year 2022 expires two weeks from today. Usually, by this point in time, we have some...
Eno Launches New Research Initiative to Help Define Parameters for a National VMT Fee Pilot
Sep 16, 2022 | Paul LewisWhat if we charged drivers by the miles they drove rather than the gallons of fuel their cars consume? Perhaps more importantly, how...
DOT Announces $1.5 Billion in FY22 INFRA Grants
Sep 16, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Department of Transportation yesterday announced the fiscal 2022 recipients of grants under the INFRA program first...
Innovative ‘Transform 66 Outside the Beltway Project’ in Northern Virginia to Open on Time this Year
Sep 14, 2022 | Jeff DavisAs Jeff Davis, a Senior Fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, recently noted: “If sustained highway cost inflation averages...