Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
Webinar: COVID-19 Mobility Adaptations: Building a Knowledge Base for New Practices
Jul 08, 2021 | Madeline GormanWith the COVID-19 pandemic came a rapid increase in demand for safe, physically distant space for walking and cycling. Thousands of...
Guest Op-Ed: The Current State of Public Policy for Autonomous Trucking
May 07, 2021 | Finch FultonThe US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has long advocated for the benefits autonomous vehicles can bring to the nation’s...
White House plan calls for large expansion of federal government’s role in transportation
Mar 31, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Biden administration is calling for $365 billion in highway spending, $189 billion for transit and $94 billion for rail over five...
Can Congress fix I-80? How Biden’s expected infrastructure plan could impact Sacramento
Mar 30, 2021 | Paul LewisSaying a bridge is deficient “doesn’t mean the bridge is about to fall down. That kind of thing is very rare. Things that engineers...
Proceed With Caution Regarding Transportation Earmarks, Stakeholders Say
Mar 15, 2021 | Jeff DavisJeff Davis hopes lawmakers will tread cautiously. “I just hope they can restrain themselves,” he said.
Webinar: Form and Function: The Role and Future of Complete Streets Post-COVID
Mar 25, 2021 | Madeline Gorman"Complete streets" is a design approach intended to accommodate a variety of modes of transportation and has been shown to reduce motor...
Biden DOT Rewrites INFRA Grant Solicitation – But Will FY21 Be the Only Year Team Biden Gets to Select Projects?
Feb 26, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Biden Administration has released its revised version of the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the fiscal year 2021 tranche...
Trucking Braces for ‘COVID Hangover’ and Ongoing Battles in 2021
Dec 29, 2020 | Jeff DavisClose attention is being paid to the team that will surround Buttigieg at DOT. Jeff Davis, senior fellow at the Eno Center for...
Op-Ed: The Infrastructure Disaster Nobody is Talking About
Dec 11, 2020 | Paul LewisPerhaps we are still distracted by the election. Perhaps commuting patterns have changed so much that it is not as important. But...
Webinar: Environmental (in)Justice During COVID-19
Dec 10, 2020 | Madeline GormanIn this webinar, we will address the harm inflicted upon minorities, low-income, rural, and tribal populations through disproportionate...
Webinar: Reimagining Regulations for a Changing Mobility Landscape
Nov 17, 2020 | Madeline GormanAs the world's mobility landscape changes, city and transportation leaders must grapple with new ways to provide the best...
Webinar: What Counts in Mobility? Rethinking Transportation Modeling
Oct 21, 2020 | Madeline GormanTransportation models predict the traffic volume of a given bridge, highway, or train and allow decision-makers to make more informed...
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,...