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.
December 21, 2023 - Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation notified Congress that they have selected eleven projects to...
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December 21, 2023 - The U.S. Senate headed home for the year this week, following the House which left town...
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December 21, 2023 - 2023 was the year that the unprecedented competitive grant funding provided by the bipartisan infrastructure law...
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December 8, 2023 - The House of Representatives is still operating under a schedule that calls for the chamber to...
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Wednesday, November 29 - The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials met to discuss...
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December 1, 2023 - Even counting mass transit taxes and spending, the insolvent nature of the Highway Trust Funds mean...
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December 1, 2023 - When assembling data for the donor state article elsewhere in this issue, something leaped out at...
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December 1, 2023 - How quickly is transportation funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law actually being put to work?
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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,...