Jim Watts

Chamber of Commerce chief Tom Donahue says oil price drop makes federal gas tax increase seem more attractive.

Maine's $2 billion, three-year transportation program is designed to upgrade the state's infrastructure despite sluggish federal highway funding.

New IBTTA president Javier Rodriguez seeks more toll options to fund investments in transportation infrastructure.

Tennessee highway coalition drums up support for an increase in state taxes and fees for infrastructure projects.

Development of a new multiyear highway bill with more funding for state transportation projects is main focus of a key Senate committee.

Work is officially under way on California's $68 billion high speed passenger rail project funded with $10 billion of voter-approved state bonds

MBTA completes its funding for a $2.3 billion light rail project in Boston with a $996 million federal grant.

States will seek ways in 2015 to enhance existing revenue streams or create new ones to fund critical transportation projects, Wells Fargo says.

Missouri's proposed $2 billion upgrade of I-70 could be funded by tolling the 200-mile link between Kansas City and St. Louis.

Lack of action on federal transportation funding means growth in states' use of public-private partnerships to build, fund, and operate large projects.

Short-term extensions of federal transportation spending are likely to continue through 2015 as lawmakers struggle with a gasoline tax that can't pay the bills.

Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia formally closed on $600 million of federal loans for Silver Line rail project to Dulles Airport.

A three-mile segment of the Coalfields Expressway will be the first public-private partnership project to be built under West Virginia's new P3 law.

Increasing interest in public-private transportation partnerships due to constraints from $3.6 trillion of state and local outstanding debt, Brookings Institution said.

Private investors will begin collecting tolls soon on new interstate express lanes in Virginia built and operated under a P3 agreement through 2087.

Moody's raises its outlook for U.S. airports to positive as economic growth boosts passenger loads.

Falling crude prices may make an increase in the federal gasoline tax more politically palatable.

Governments should invest $163 billion a year in infrastructure to keep pace with growing transportation needs, new study finds.

Maryland will delay bidding for two months on its $2.45 billion Purple Line P3 project so new governor can review.

Transportation infrastructure construction will grow slightly faster than the rest of the economy in 2015, according to highway construction group.