Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate confirmed three new members of the eight-member Amtrak Board of Directors. (Eight regular members, that is, plus the ex officio Secretary of Transportation and the ...

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 ...

As the policy director for his 1976 presidential election campaign and his Chief White House Domestic Policy Adviser throughout his one term in office, I had the privilege of seeing up-close how the ...

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 lows, it is still ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were once places called “donor states” that paid more money in taxes into the Highway Trust Fund than they received in funding coming out of the Trust Fund. But they don’t exist anymore. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 now at an ...