Jim Watts

FHWA will reallocate $2.8 billion of unspent federal highway funding to 49 states in fiscal 2016.

Freight backlogs are biggest potential setback to U.S. ports from South Korean shipping bankruptcy.

Tennessee officials hope to avoid a $60 million cut in federal road funding over state's new under-21 DUI law.

Minnesota highway officials say road conditions will worsen without solution to growing revenue gap.

States will experiment with alternatives to the gasoline tax using funding from first round of federal grants.

Japan will contribute $2 million to study a $10 billion magnetic levitation rail line between Baltimore and Washington.

Congressional critic of California's $9 billion of state bonds for high-speed rail wants to repurpose the funding.

Almost all the state legislators who voted for a higher state gasoline tax last year won their 2016 primary races, according to an analysis of eight states that enacted laws to increase their state motor fuel taxes in 2015.

Maryland and Federal Transit Administration officials want a federal judge to restore funding for the $5.6 billion Purple Line light rail public-private partnership project that was shut down by court order in early August.

Significant cost overruns on an earlier light-rail program may affect November vote on Seattle’s $54 billion transit proposal.