The U.S. Department of the Treasury outlined specific transportation-related rules regarding the disbursement of $350 billion in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds – money provided through the American Rescue Plan or ARP legislation passed in early March – to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments. [Above photo of Treasury Department headquarters by Matt Robinson] […]

Toks Omishakin (above at left) – director of the California Department of Transportation – and William Panos (above at right), director of the North Dakota Department of Transportation, highlighted the ways state departments of transportation are incorporating equity into their infrastructure programs during a May 11 hearing on Capitol Hill. Both virtually joined the hearing […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials urged the Federal Highway Administration to move forward with its proposed update to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices or MUTCD, despite calls to re-start the revision process. [Above photo collage by the American Traffic Safety Services Association.] “It has been over 10 years since […]

The Federal Aviation Administration recently awarded more than $898.9 million to support 488 infrastructure and safety grants to 447 airports in 49 states and American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico. [Above photo of Chicago Rockford Airport] That funding – issued via the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program or AIP – also includes $113.5 million in American Rescue […]