Jim Watts

Allowing states to toll existing highways as an infrastructure funding option divides transportation industry advocates.

Three senators hope to offer an amendment on Senate floor that rejects budget gimmicks and requires passage in 2014 of a longer term transportation funding measure.

The ailing Highway Trust Fund needs a long-term answer, not another short-term patch, says Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx

The $11 billion, 10-month legislative bailout of the Highway Trust Fund adopted overwhelmingly by the House would stymie the best chance for a long-term solution for transportation funding, according to most industry experts.

President Obama announced a new federal effort to connect local governments with private investor partners in transportation infrastructure projects during his visit Thursday to a shuttered bridge in Delaware.

The House adopted a 10-month, $10.8 billion short-term fix for the almost insolvent Highway Trust Fund.

Chances for swift passage of a billion bailout of the highway fund rise with Obama's support of the House's temporary fix.

An economic study that stresses the value of investments in transportation is part of a weeklong effort by President Obama to get a long-term highway funding bill.

The Army Corps of Engineers is developing policies and procedures for a pilot program of partnering with private sector investors on waterway and port projects, a top Corps official told a House subcommittee.

House and Senate tax-writing committees approved similar but not identical 10-month, $10.8 billion bailouts of the almost-depleted Highway Trust Fund, with each chairman contending his panel's bill is the most bipartisan measure.

The current failure of House and Senate negotiators to find common ground on a short-term fix for the almost-insolvent Highway Trust Fund may not mean the ailing fund won't be patched, transportation experts said Wednesday.

Congress must quickly fix the impending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund without waiting for an executive order, President Obama said.

President Obama's warning that federal transportation funding will dry up is a scare tactic aimed at raising taxes, a conservative group said.

President Obama challenged Congress Tuesday on its inability to resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sees public-private partnerships as a potential funding source for water infrastructure projects.

Nationwide poll finds most Americans would support a higher gas tax if revenues are dedicated to highway and transit projects.

The Head of the Senate Finance Committee will work with chairman of House Ways and Means for a quick, temporary fix to the fast-depleting Federal Highway Trust Fund.

Social impact bond legislation in Congress authorizes the creation of P3s that would benefit by achieving socially desirable outcomes.

Watchdog group advises lawmakers to avoid bookkeeping gimmicks in resolving the multi-billion shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

Senators Chris Murphy and Bob Corker have joined forces in a push for higher federal gas taxes to fund highway projects.