Jim Watts

House Appropriations subcommittee adopted a fiscal 2016 transportation budget with no increase in highway and transit spending.

Millions of jobs and billions of dollars in state road and transit projects are at risk unless a multiyear federal transportation bill is in place by the end of May, Senate Finance Committee Democrats warned on Tuesday.

Public-private partnerships may become an important tool for transportation financing, but must overcome political and social hurdles in the U.S.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wants major cost reductions in Purple Line P3 rail proposal or he'll kill the project.

Airline advocates told Senate Commerce Committee members at a hearing on Thursday that there is no need to almost double the federal passenger facility fee that airport executives contend is necessary to fund terminals and other facilities needed to meet projected growth in air traffic.

An economic study says Maryland’s proposed $2.45 billion Purple Line light rail would boost area’s income and job opportunities.

Unclogging the congested road and bridge connections linking ports with land trade routes will cost $29 billion by 2025, an AAPA survey has found.

Proposed state legislation in California would raise the gasoline tax to generate an additional $3 billion a year for transportation projects.

Congressional proposals filed Thursday to bolster the Highway Trust Fund include a a 66% increase in the gasoline tax and corporate tax reform.

Virginia terminated its ties with a toll-road developer after spending almost $300 million on the $1.4 billion project.

A $15.1 billion, 16-year transportation package proposed by Washington State House Democrats includes more than $8 billion of new projects to be funded with an increase in the state gasoline tax and up to $4.3 billion of state general obligation bonds.

State lawmakers have approved more than $1 billion a year of new local transportation funding in 2015 with more to come.

A group of conservative House Democrats wants a hearing on fixing the Highway Trust Fund when Congress returns from its two-week Easter recess.

Airport capital spending will rise over next five years to meet growing passenger demand, Moody's says.

President Obama's proposed six-year transportation bill would give states more flexibility in tolling of existing roads and bridges.

Congress will not find the revenue needed to fund a multi-year federal transportation bill before the most recent short-term fix lapses in two months, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Ohio, said.

Measures in the House and Senate would set aside for local projects a portion of states’ federal highway funding.

States have postponed scores of road projects over concerns that federal funding will be delayed during the summer construction season.

States have postponed scores of road projects over concerns that federal funding will be delayed during the summer construction season.

Mayors will unleash a coast-to-coast political push for a significant increase in federal transportation funding.