Jeff Davis is a Senior Fellow with the Eno Center for Transportation and is also the Editor of the Eno Transportation Weekly.

Jeff came to Washington in 1988 to attend The American University and soon began working on Capitol Hill for the ranking minority member of the House Rules Committee. For six years he worked on a wide variety of legislative, budget process oversight and parliamentary procedure issues.

In January 1996 Jeff joined a transportation consulting firm and worked extensively on the FAA, Amtrak and surface transportation reauthorization laws in 1996-1998 as well as various appropriations bills.  He founded his own research and consulting business in June 1998 and published Transportation Weekly, a news service covering federal transportation and public works, from 1999-2014.

He joined the Eno Center in January 2015. His work focuses on analysis of the federal transportation budget and the long-term trends in transportation funding and policy.

Follow him on Twitter at @JDwithTW

Eno Transportation Weekly Articles

Surface Transportation Bill Approved by 3 House Committees

Three House committees approved surface transportation reauthorization legislation this week.

BUILD America 250: The Financial Parameters

The Build America 250 Act provides $474.4 billion in guaranteed surface transportation funding over five years.

Research

March 17, 2026|Highway Trust Fund

The Last Exit: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund while Solvency is still Solvable

March 17, 2026 - As the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s advance appropriations expire in 2026, Congress faces a critical choice between locking in the efficiency, capacity, and ridership gains enabled by predictable rail funding...

Yahoo News|November 6, 2024|Emissions, Eno Announcements, Freight, Infrastructure, Land use, Maritime, People & The Environment, Ports, Resilience

Benefits and Beneficiaries of the Nation’s Inland Waterways

The Europeans settled the United States via waterborne transportation. Settlements, and then cities, first arose where there were natural seaports. They later developed along rivers as far upstream as the boats of the time could...

Media Mentions & Commentary

Marketplace|November 18, 2025|Air Traffic Control, Aviation

Marketplace: After shutdown, what's next for air traffic control?