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 ...

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-September 2023 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As with any new Administration, the start of the Trump Administration has brought about changes in federal funding priorities through changes in language and merit criteria in discretionary grant ...

World history changed during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. His diplomacy was a major factor in the reunification of Germany; Saddam Hussain’s army was soundly defeated by coalition forces led ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...