Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
FHWA Gives States $5.3 Billion in Bridge Funding
Jan 14, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration today gave state DOTs $5.3 billion in new funding specifically to repair and improve highway...
How Will the “Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program” Work?
Jan 07, 2022 | Jeff DavisIn President Biden's original American Jobs Plan, the transportation portion of that proposal called for $15 billion for a...
White House Releases Plan to Address Truck Driver Shortage
Dec 17, 2021 | Jeff DavisThis week, the White House released an "action plan" for the Biden Administration to address the oft-discussed truck driver shortage...
“Where’s The Beef?” Supply Chain Issues Centennial Recap
Dec 17, 2021 | Jonathan HammondMany of the goods imported into the U.S.—all told worth around $3 trillion—rely on intricate, finely-tuned international supply...
Guest Op-Ed: Rethinking the Truck Driver Shortage
Dec 10, 2021 | Jason MillerMany major media outlets such as CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times recently reported that the nation's global supply...
Highway “Donor States” R.I.P.
Nov 16, 2021 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's signature on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act yesterday will open the financial floodgates on a total of...
White House Tries to Mediate Supply Chain Disruptions
Oct 22, 2021 | Jeff DavisFour months after creating a White House Task Force on Supply Chain Disruptions, and six weeks after appointing former Deputy U.S....
GAO’s 10 Options for Climate-Resilient Roads
Sep 24, 2021 | Jeff DavisA new report out this week from the U.S. Government Accountability Office examines ways that the Federal Highway Administration could...
Op-Ed: Why Automated Driving Faces a Monster Uphill Battle
Sep 17, 2021 | Paul LewisMy three-year-old daughter takes her friend’s power wheels car for a first-time spin. I briefly show her how to turn the steering...
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...
Can Biden build a bridge to fix America’s infrastructure problems?
May 28, 2021 | Paul LewisDesigned to support state-level transportation projects, Paul Lewis, vice president of policy at Eno Center for Transportation, said...
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,...