December 19, 2025 - In 2025, expanding autonomous vehicle deployments spurred increased federal and state action on safety, ...

December 19, 2025 - The House passed the SPEED Act largely along party lines, advancing NEPA changes to speed permitting while deepening partisan divisions, particularly over offshore wind.

December 19, 2025 - A new Eno whitepaper finds that decision making under deep uncertainty (DMDU) can help transportation agencies build more resilient, future-ready plans by stress-testing ...

December 18, 2025 - The FAA Administrator gave two Congressional committees updates on the status of air traffic control this week.

December 19, 2025 - The Senate adjourned after confirming several key transportation nominees but left multiple senior Department of Transportation positions unfilled, sending remaining nominations ...

The Highway Trust Fund is a special trust fund account in the U.S. Treasury established by section 209 of the Highway Revenue Act of 1956. The Trust Fund is currently codified in section 9503 of the ...

Cities, states, and metropolitan areas across the United States are investing in a range of public transit projects in order to connect people to jobs and economic opportunity, reduce greenhouse gas ...

In 1982, a political deal was struck whereby urban legislators would vote for a huge 5 cent-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax increase demanded by highway interests (taking the total from 4 ...

The Federal Highway Administration recently released its updated index of highway construction costs for the July-September 2022 quarter, and it shows that inflation in this sector is more extreme ...

What a difference two years makes. In fiscal 2019, Amtrak only lost $29 million on operations, and the budget estimates submitted to Congress in March 2020 predicted a break-even that year, followed ...

Anyone who goes to a store, a restaurant, or a gas station can see that prices are going up, and most things cost measurably more than they did a year or two ago. Of course, that equation is easily ...

The total amount of usable highway formula funding given to states by the Federal Highway Administration in 2024 was $62.1 billion. This ranged from $6.04 billion in Texas and $5.59 billion in ...