As part of its 2021 APTA-UITP Rail Conference, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released a new report on assessing high-performance rail’s return on investment. The report, ...
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced $250 million in federal funding allocations Friday for transit projects. The funding is part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and w...
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The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) urges lawmakers to include in legislation the bonding of infrastructure investments for payment and performance of public-private partnersh...
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The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved two major pieces of legislation to modernize America’s roads, bridges, highways, rail, transit, and wastewater systems. Com...
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U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the committee, introduced legislation authorizing $7...
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On Wednesday, the Problem Solvers Caucus released their infrastructure proposal to break the gridlock on the infrastructure negotiations. The 58-member bipartisan group, co-chaired by U.S. Reps. J...
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A survey done by RSM US and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has found that executives at middle market businesses agree that the state of the U.S. infrastructure is hampering economic growth nationally, ...
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Five Georgia projects are included in the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation (INVEST) in America Act, the five-year, $547 billion surface transportation reauthori...
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The INVEST in America Act, the federal surface transportation bill, includes three Denver area projects totaling nearly $20 million that will improve the safety and efficiency of the city’s transpor...
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Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would invest $95 billion in passenger and freight rail. The five-year $547 billion INVEST in America Act would provide funding f...
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U.S. Reps. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) announced Tuesday they would be introducing legislation to dedicate federal funds to maintain rural bridges across America. The Support for Communi...
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More than two dozen equipment manufacturing executives and representatives of American Equipment Manufacturers’ (AEM) staff met with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Monday to discuss Pr...
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U.S. Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Garret Graves (R-LA), and Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reintroduced legislation that would establish a dedicated source of funding to repair Amer...
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The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure recently announced it included $20 million to complete the New Haven, Conn., Downtown Crossing in the INVEST American Act, a five-year surface ...
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U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit; and Donald M. Payne...
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Nearly two dozen Congress members from across New England called on Congress to authorize the North Atlantic Rail Corporation (NARC) to receive federal funds to design, build and oversee a high-speed ...
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Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would bolster the construction of electric charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure to fight climate change while creating jo...
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Friday that he recommends spending $2.5 billion in FY 2022 to construct or complete 25 rail, bus rapid transit, and streetcar projects in 12 stat...
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The $11.6 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, which would build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey and repair an existing 110-year-old tunnel, will advance after rec...
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N.J. Transit said it will continue to aggressively advance its zero-emissions bus program as it released its roadmap to a 100 percent zero-emission bus fleet by 2040. The roadmap includes several ...
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