Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
Earmark Patterns in the House’s INVEST Act
Jul 23, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration has completed its highway funding projections under the INVEST in America Act (H.R. 3684), as passed...
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...
Infrastructure overhaul should focus more on safety, advocates say
May 27, 2021 | Paul LewisThe administration still hasn’t spelled out a lot of details about the initial plan, but more than $400 billion apparently would go...
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...
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,...