There are over 4 million miles of roads in the United States moving cars, trucks, transit, and non-motorized vehicles across a seamless, integrated network. About three-quarters of the roads are owned by localities but the vast majority of travel occurs on major state roads and the federally-designated Interstate System. Today, this complex system is under strain as demands for upgrades and repair, safety improvements, and modernization mount.
DOT has broad authority under transportation law in the U.S. Code to establish a performance-based approach to reduce transportation-related air...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CounterPoint.jpg500750Barbara Boxerhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngBarbara Boxer2016-08-17 21:51:552023-04-17 11:28:52Guest Op-Ed: Greenhouse Emissions Must Be Measured for Highway System Performance
While GPS mapping was groundbreaking, auto manufacturers and tech companies are now rushing to create sophisticated, ultra-precise maps of cities...
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Letter signed by Senate Environment and Public Works chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) and five other Republican Senators filing public comments...
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Are autonomous vehicles the “next big thing” to transform our transportation system? If so, how soon, and what are the...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/highway-919073_960_720-e1470859049751.jpg500750Howard Learnerhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngHoward Learner2016-08-10 23:14:232023-04-17 11:26:46Autonomous Vehicles: Can They Improve Safety and Accelerate Environmental Progress?
August 10, 2016 - Of the nine rural TIGER grants awarded at the end of last year, a streetscape project...
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Guest op-ed expressing the need for the consolidation of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in many areas.
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CounterPoint.jpg500750Emil Frankelhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngEmil Frankel2016-08-10 18:32:222023-04-17 11:22:54MPO Consolidation is Often Needed
Pokemon Go is the latest in a long line of distractions for drivers that have prompted responses from federal and...
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Table showing the percentage shares of the TIGER program awarded to each state and territory over the FY 2009-2016 period,...
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A substantial shift in transportation options is emerging, with various technologies advancing to market for connected and highly automated vehicles...
https://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/iStock_000074583521_Full-e1458235532969.jpg500750Kara Kockelmanhttps://enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Eno-Logo-2.pngKara Kockelman2016-07-27 23:53:362023-04-17 11:44:13Preparing Our Towns & Cities for a Fleet of Self-Driving Vehicles
July 27, 2016 - A Tesla Model S traveling eastbound on US-27A in northern Florida struck and passed under a...
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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,...