Jim Watts

Airports want to double the federal passenger facility fee of $4.50 per head, but airlines see no need for the increase.

Moody's Investors Service has lowered its ratings on $8.5 billion of state and transit agency stand-alone grant anticipation revenue vehicle bonds supported by dwindling revenues from the Highway Trust Fund.

Foreign equity investment interest in U.S. public-private partnerships at all-time level, a House P3 panel was told.

President Obama's four-year, $302 billion transportation funding bill, introduced in the House by a bipartisan pair of representatives, is not expected to gain traction in the Republican-controlled chamber.

More than 50% of Americans would support an increase in the federal gasoline tax if the revenues are dedicated to highways and mass transit, AAA survey says.

Rep. Peter DeFazio wants to build highways with a wholesale tax on oil and repeal the federal gasoline tax.

President Obama signed into law Tuesday a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill that funds 34 port, inland waterway, and flood control projects.

Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray says closing corporate tax loopholes would pay for federal transportation funding needed to avoid a shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

House GOP leaders push ahead with a plan to fund highway projects for a year with savings realized by limited Saturday mail deliveries.

New study links increased public corruption to high levels of state expenditures on highways and other construction projects.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a $51 billion transportation spending measure for fiscal 2015, as a subcommittee chair warned about the pending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund.

Recent improvements in airline profits are credit positive for airport bonds and may lead to increased capital investments, Well Fargo says.

Senate Appropriations subcommittee approved legislation that would keep federal highway funding at 2014 levels next year while increasing transit spending by $310 million.

House GOP leaders propose cutting Saturday mail deliveries and use the savings to fund highway projects.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., will propose a 12 cent per gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax to support highway and transit projects.

A bill introduced in the Senate mirrors legislation pending in the House proposal to remove the state volume cap on private activity bonds issued for water utility projects.

P3s are useful financial tools, not magical risk-free solutions, for increased state funding of transportation projects, NASBO says.

More oversight is needed of how the Transportation Department awards TIGER transportation grants, Government Accountability Office says in a new report.

Efforts are under way in Congress to amend a new federal loan program for water infrastructure that excludes tax-exempt bonds from the project funding package.

Travel executives say under-investment in U.S. transportation infrastructure threatens the nation's global standing.