Jim Watts

Federal grants awarded to transit systems damaged by Hurricane Sandy will reduce the financial strain from future storms, Moody's said.

Most Texans want to increase state spending on transportation infrastructure without raising taxes, according to a new statewide poll.

Targeted increases in transportation infrastructure funding are needed to overcome a 10-year backlog of neglected projects.

Transportation Department doesn't account for how it awards federal TIGER grants, GAO says in new report.

Gasoline tax revenues are not a reliable long-term source for financing transportation infrastructure, Pew Charitable Trusts said in new report.

Transportation advocates want to put the kibosh on congressional proposals to slash the federal gasoline tax and turn over almost all highway funding to the states.

Bipartisan bill introduced in the House would divert 10% of federal highway dollars to state-run transportation grant programs that would fund local projects.

House committee okays plan to cut Amtrak's allocation for capital projects to $770 million a year from the current $1.3 billion.

P3s can often deliver high-cost projects more quickly than wholly public efforts but can't solve the nation's infrastructure deficit alone.

Tolls on existing interstate highways will be an increasingly common way of funding road projects within 10 years, experts say.

Texas is trying new ideas in infrastructure transportation funding to keep up with demand from a growing population.

Americans strongly support tolling existing interstates if collections are dedicated to highway upgrades, according to a new poll.

Proposed legislation in the House would cut Amtrak's funding by 40% and redirect passenger-line profits to Northeast capital projects.

Coalition of shippers and operators of infrastructure assets wants long-term funding for freight projects in the next federal transportation bill.

Members of Congress broke the news early on allocations of federal TIGER grants ahead of the official announcement of awards totaling $600 million from the program.

Guaranteed availability payments are becoming more attractive to private investors in infrastructure P3s than volatile toll or fare revenues.

Texas voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment that could boost state highway spending by $1.7 billion a year.

Maryland's latest six-year transportation plan includes $279.4 million of new projects as part of $4.4 billion of additional highway and transit funding provided over six years by a 2013 state law that raised the gasoline tax.

West Virginia is seeking a private partner to build a 3.3-mile segment of the Coalfields Expressway in the state's first P3 project under a 2013 law.

A seven-member panel studying high-speed rail service in north Texas plans to seek federal funding to begin development of a line between Austin and Fort Worth.