August 26, 2023 - Why does Texas pay 20 cents on the dollar to build new federal-aid highways, but California only pays 16.4 cents on the dollar? The answer is a 102-year-old law that stopped making ...

Wednesday, July 30 – Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation – full committee business meeting to vote on the Zerzan, Barrs, Morrison, Roberti, Oz, and Rutherford nominations to USDOT and other ...

There has been a lot of talk in the last week about the “80-20 highway-transit split,” and not all of it was accurate. Herewith: a brief explainer. What 80-20 originally meant: In 1982, a political ...

October 18, 2019 - Data from the newly released 2018 American Community Survey shows that telework continued its upward trend, while driving alone to work trended slightly downward. Several regions ...

April 21, 2022 - Amtrak's new budget documents call for $1 billion per year operating losses as far as can be projected, a drastic change from the passenger railroad's historic pre-COVID break-even.

May 3, 2024 - Even though one-third of all docked bike share systems closed permanently at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of customers using bike share in the U.S. and Canada is ...

March 26, 2024 - Yesterday, the Federal Highway Administration updated its quarterly index of highway construction costs, revealing that the cost index (the NHCCI) increased by 6.0 percent in the July ...

April 18, 2023 - 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 ...

July 1, 2022 - Since the COVID pandemic began, transit agencies have been trying to figure out when all their riders will come back. Although local bus ridership is bouncing back from post-pandemic ...

California and four major automakers (BMW, VW, Ford, and Honda) signed a voluntary agreement that appears to preempt the Trump administration’s attempt to roll back the Obama-era fuel efficiency ...

April 8, 2020 - The World War II experience in gasoline rationing may provide some interesting parallels to the current drop in vehicle miles-traveled caused by coronavirus response.

The 12,000-mile inland waterways network in the United States is a vital trade corridor serving energy, agriculture, and other freight shipments internally and for export. Major global events like the ...