Issues & Modes / Highways and Streets
Countdown to Mainstreaming of Self-Driving Vehicles
May 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY EVA LERNER-LAM President, Palisades Consulting Group, Inc. There is a lot of excitement today about the concept of so-called...
The Road From SAFETEA-LU to GROW AMERICA
May 25, 2014 | Emil FrankelLast week we saw the first Administration-authored, publicly released surface transportation bill since 2003. In examining the arc of...
Federal Prohibitions on Toll Roads, How They Got There, and How the GROW AMERICA Act Proposes to Change Them
May 06, 2014 | Jeff DavisMay 6, 2014 Let’s just say that Congress has been having this debate for a really long time. The first law providing federal...
America’s Infrastructure Crisis Isn’t Overstated
Mar 24, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY BRIAN PALLASCH Managing Director of Government Relations and Infrastructure Initiatives American Society of Civil...
The Bell Tolls for User-based Funding
Mar 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONLast month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has proposed a specific funding source for...
Three Ideas for Big City Departments of Transportation
Feb 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThe United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of these...
Is It Time to Dismantle the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey?
Feb 24, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY DAVID Z. PLAVIN Like living organisms, public authorities seem to have a finite life cycle. They come into being to serve a...
The Challenge of National Freight Policy: How to Pay For It?
Jan 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION2014 could be the year that a national freight policy begins to take focus in a new authorization bill. There have been several...
2013 Transportation Weekly Archive Index
Dec 31, 2013 | Jeff Davis2013 Transportation Weekly Archive Index January 2013 January 16, 2013 issue January 21, 2013 update ...
Labor Day on the Roads, Thanksgiving in the Skies
Dec 26, 2013 | Carter TempletonBY ROGER DOW President and CEO, U.S. Travel Association Last weekend millions of Americans struggled to get where they wanted to go...
Tolling and Transit: An Emerging Nexus
Nov 26, 2013 | Carter TempletonBY EDWARD J. REGAN Senior Vice President, CDM Smith MICHAEL TOWNES VICE PRESIDENT, TRANSIT SERVICES LEADER, CDM SMITH Neither...
A Wholesale Tax on Gasoline: What are the Policy Implications?
Oct 26, 2013 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONSenator Barbara Boxer made headlines, at least in the small transportation world, when she said that she was leaning towards the idea...
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,...