Digging for Dirt
U.S. DOT Announces $1 Billion in Multi-Modal Grants What happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Nov. 19 awarded nearly $1 billion of infrastructure funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program.
Why it matters: The grants […]
Online Voters and Independent Judges to Choose the Winners
Transportation workers are essential because they keep communities connected no matter what. From the start of the global pandemic, state departments of transportation employees and their private-sector partners have worked hard to […]
Fund Benefits Children of Fallen Highway Workers
By Matt Jeanneret
Shawn Blubaugh, a dedicated public official, died doing a job he loved.
In 2010, he was working for the Ohio Department of Transportation when he was struck by a piece of heavy equipment […]
This chain links everything: The Department of Commerce announced that its Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness will meet later in June. This Committee provides advice to the Secretary of Commerce on a comprehensive policy approach to supply chain competitiveness and on related […]
Full report, appendix and video interview with report author available at this link.
As the summer travel season begins and the U.S. continues to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, vehicle travel has returned to near pre-pandemic levels and has surpassed pre-COVID levels […]