A toll project that is the result of a public-private partnership (P3/PPP) in Texas is getting a little help from the federal government. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced that the private company that will build and operate the tollway as part of the State Highway 288 project in Houston has been awarded a […]
Americans are more likely to be open to innovative financing tools to pay for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure than many previously had thought. A recent national survey, Transportation Mobility 2016, conducted by HNTB Corp. and released today, shows that 65 percent of those surveyed would support user fees such as levies on vehicle miles traveled or mileage-based fees to address the country’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.
The U.S. Senate is poised to take up a 2017 spending bill that prioritizes funding for transportation infrastructure projects and programs that ensure the safety, efficiency and reliability of the nation’s infrastructure system and encourage economic growth. The Senate Appropriations Committee last week approved the $56.5 billion FY2017 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related […]
Seven American cities will be competing for an award of up to $40 million that they would use to reinvent transportation in their communities using data, technology and a big dose of innovation and creativity. The seven cities – Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Denver Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and San Francisco, […]
As the United States faces estimates of $3.4 billion in infrastructure needs through 2020, the nation’s public schools, airports, water treatment plants, highways and bridges and other structures and facilities continue to be shortchanged. State and local infrastructure spending is at its lowest in three decades, and the federal investment in infrastructure has dropped by […]
Five finalists from among more than 70 medium-sized cities competing in the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Smart City Challenge will be named in June, with the winner to be awarded up to $40 million. That money will fund the winning city’s proposal that is geared toward safer, easier and more reliable transportation in the […]
Threat of a government shutdown is just one of several hot-button issues that Congress is facing and hoping to resolve before the end of the year. But, the elephant in the room – once again – is a languishing long-term bill to reauthorize funding for the federal Highway Trust Fund. The bill, which would provide […]