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The House and Senate are in recess the week of May 26 for the Memorial Day District Work Period. No committee activity in Washington, DC is scheduled. However, the House Appropriations Committee has ...
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence to transform transportation. While embracing AI innovation, the agency is also identifying and managing ...
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 ...
The greatest daily demands on our transportation system come when most Americans travel to work. Understanding and serving those needs is one of the key challenges facing transportation planners, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The federal Highway Trust Fund spent $26.7 billion more in the just-completed fiscal year 2024 than it received in net highway user tax payments, according to year-end (unaudited) data from the ...
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 ...
On this day 60 years ago – September 9, 1959 – the White House announced that President Eisenhower was requesting a bailout of the Highway Trust Fund – a $359 million “repayable advance” appropriation ...
Intercity bus travel is far from novel in the United States — in fact, for much of the early-to-mid 20th century, it was the go-to option for long-distance travelers. The decline of the bus industry ...