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.
Text of Public Law 686 of the 74th Congress, the Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1936.
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Text of Public Law 393 of the 73rd Congress, which provided an additional $200 million in appropriations and $250 million...
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Text of Public Law 67 of the 73rd Congress, title II of which created a Federal Emergency Administration of Public...
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Provided an immediate $300 million in funding for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for immediate employment relief, to be repaid by...
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Text of Public Law 179 of the 70th Congress, providing additional federal-aid highway funds for fiscal years 1932 and 1933.
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1998 TEA21 authorization law.
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Provided an additional $80 million for the federal-aid highway program, $3 million for roads on public lands, and $3 million...
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Text of Public Law 244 of the 67th Congress. The first-ever creation of contract authority occurred in this act, as...
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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,...