Category Archives: Transportation

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Survey shows increased support for user fees, levies for transportation needs

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.

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Senate Committee passes transportation spending bill

Bill now heads to full Senate

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 […]

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Seven cities named finalists for $40 million Smart Cities Challenge competition

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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, […]

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Federal office promotes approaches for more productive federal highway spending

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 […]

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U.S. Department of Transportation: 77 cities competing in $40M Smart City Challenge

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 […]

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Rural transportation projects dominate awards for $500M in TIGER grant funds

Rural areas of the United States hit the jackpot this week when nearly 40 transportation projects in 34 states were announced as recipients of funding from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced $500 million in TIGER funding has been awarded for 2015, 43 percent of […]