Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
House Tees Up Revamp of an Automated Vehicle Bill
Feb 14, 2020 | Alice GrossmanOn Tuesday, February 11, the House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce held a hearing...
FHWA Gives Out $2B in FY20 General Fund Highway Formula Funding
Feb 14, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration has apportioned to states the $2 billion in additional highway formula funding from general revenues...
House Passes Additional $1.25B in Highway Emergency Relief Funding
Feb 07, 2020 | Jeff DavisEarlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating an additional $1.25 billion from general revenues for the...
Senate Hearing Looks at Hours of Service Rules, Minimum Age Requirements, and Technology Issues in Trucking
Feb 07, 2020 | Romic AevazThe Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety held a February 4 hearing on Stakeholder Perspectives on Trucking in...
FHWA Gives $37.6B in FY20 Highway Funding to States
Jan 31, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration on January 24 issued a formal funding notice that gave state DOTs $37.6 billion in unrestricted...
USDOT Solicits Applications for $906M in FY20 INFRA Grants by Feb. 25
Jan 17, 2020 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week that the available amount of competitive INFRA grant funding for fiscal year...
House to Consider $1.25 Billion in FHWA Emergency Relief Appropriations Week of Jan. 27
Jan 16, 2020 | Jeff DavisHouse Democratic leaders today announced that the House will consider a $3.35 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill the...
Guest Op-Ed: Less Spectrum Means Less Safety
Jan 16, 2020 | Shailen BhattWe rarely hear about the 37,000 people who die every year on our roads. The statistics are staggering, which is a big part of the...
USMCA Trade Bill Addresses Trucking Competition
Dec 19, 2019 | Jeff DavisThis week, the House of Representatives passed the bill implementing the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA), which repeals...
DOT Makes $1B in New TIFIA Loans
Dec 19, 2019 | Jeff DavisIn the last seven days, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced over $1 billion in new federal direct loans under the TIFIA...
DOT Releases Updated Highway-Transit-Freight Conditions and Performance Report
Dec 11, 2019 | Jeff DavisA long-awaited new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation was quietly released last week (two years late) and indicates that...
Partial Highway Statistics for 2018 Released
Dec 06, 2019 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration has begun publishing the voluminous tables that will eventually comprise Highway Statistics 2018 as...
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,...