From Transportation For America: Friday was a shocking day in the House of Representatives. A House committee majority went ahead with their plan to punish everyone who rides public transportation, as well as jeopardizing thousands of jobs in the public transit, construction and manufacturing industries. In doing this, House leadership and this committee ignored broad, [...]
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Transportation For America: Oppose House Bill
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012America 2050: House Wages War on Transit
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012From America 2050: Last week, more than two years after the nation’s last five-year surface transportation law expired, the House of Representatives introduced its proposed legislation for rewriting the nation’s transportation laws. And boy, it is a doozy. Facing severely reduced gasoline tax receipts, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed to cut many [...]
View this complete post...AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley on the House Transportation Bill
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley today issued this on-camera statement upon the release by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act. Mr. Horsley also issued a written statement which is available on the AASHTO homepage at http://www.transportation.org/ – AASHTOVideo on YouTube
View this complete post...2012 Pocket Guide to Transportation
Monday, January 30th, 2012U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration produces the Pocket Guide to Transportation as a compact resource that provides snapshots of the U.S. transportation system and highlights major transportation trends.
Six U.S. Transportation Secretaries Discuss Past and Future Challenges
Friday, January 27th, 2012Speaking to a standing-room-only audience on January 25 at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, six U.S. transportation secretaries reminisced about the most challenging issues they faced during their tenures and offered their views about the future prospects for the federal transportation program.
View this complete post...New House Transportation Proposal Would Reform Project Environmental Review
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily House Transportation Chair John Mica intends to release text of the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs” act perhaps as soon as Friday. Action is tentatively scheduled for February 2. See “Federal Transportation Bill Moving in House” and “5 Big Proposed Changes in the New House Transportation Bill Proposal” for more information. The [...]
View this complete post...WA Governor’s Transportation Improvement Proposal Gets Mixed Reaction
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily On Monday Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire announced a $3.6 billion proposal to address the state’s transportation maintenance and preservation needs over the next ten years. The proposal is funded from a $1.50-a-barrel fee on oil produced in Washington State; a $100 fee on electric vehicles; a 15-percent increase in license fees [...]
View this complete post...Unfunded Needs – Airport Expansion to Accommodate Passenger Growth
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Transportation Issues Daily
“Unfunded Needs” provides examples of planned projects that cannot advance due to a lack of funding. These projects could move people and goods more safely, quickly, and cleanly; foster economic and community vitality and/or improve the energy and environmental sustainability of the transportation network.
Building a Better Gas Tax: How to Fix One of State Government’s Least Sustainable Revenue Sources
Friday, December 30th, 2011INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY
State gasoline and diesel taxes (often just called “gas taxes”) are the most important source of transportation funding under the control of state lawmakers. Every state levies both of these taxes.
Unfortunately, most state gas taxes are built to fail. Thirty six states levy only a fixed-rate tax that collects the same number of cents in tax, year aft er year, on every gallon of fuel purchased. But as this report shows, inflation has been eating away at these fixed rate taxes as the price of asphalt, concrete, and other transportation construction inputs continues to grow almost every year.
View this complete post...Impact of the Production Tax Credit on the U.S. Wind Market
Thursday, December 29th, 2011AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
Navigant evaluated the impact of two scenarios of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) on the U.S. wind market through 2016.
Scope of Study
»We evaluated the impact of the following two scenarios:
Scenario 1: the PTC expires at the end of 2012.
Scenario 2: the PTC has a four-year extension and expires at the end of 2016.
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