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 87 of the 67th Congress. The Federal Highway Act of 1921 required states to designated 7...
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Text of Public Law 156 of the 64th Congress, the Act of July 11, 1916 provided the first federal appropriations...
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 2005 SAFETEA-LU authorization law.
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1978 authorization law.
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FHWA publication explaining the Federal-aid highway funding process under the 1976 authorization law.
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September 10, 2015 - Now that he has become the front-runner in public polling for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination,...
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September 10, 2015 - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has called off a markup of the surface transportation reauthorization...
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(More amendments, all of which are “limitation” amendments (“no funds in this act may be used for such-and-such”) were offered...
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Historical look at federal transportation infrastructure grants to states and localities over the FY 1941 - 2014 period.
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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,...