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A draft last year of the Maryland Consolidated Transportation Program document, which includes transportation projects planned between fiscal years 2024 and 2029, showed a funding gap of more than ...
Federal funding for transportation projects and programs are channeled through this planning process. Congress created MPOs in order to ensure that existing and future expenditures of governmental funds for transportation projects and programs are based on a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive ("3-C") planning process.
In 2012, the fourth round of TIGER funding—close to $500 million—went to 47 transportation projects in 34 states and the District of Columbia. [7] For fiscal year 2012, Democratic districts won projects that concern ports , multimodal transport , and freight rail transport ; receiving 24% of total funds, rural areas also performed strongly.
The Highway Trust Fund is a transportation fund in the United States which receives money from a federal fuel tax of 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon of diesel fuel and related excise taxes. [2]
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is a nonprofit group of approximately 1,500 public and private sector member organizations that promotes and advocates for the interests of the public transportation industry in the United States.
Transportation for America (or T4A) is an American policy organization that supports progressive transportation and land use policy. The transportation program of Smart Growth America , [ 2 ] T4A supports reforming transportation policy at the federal, state, and local levels.
A transportation improvement program (TIP) is a United States federally mandated requirement (49 U.S.C. § 5303 (j)) for all metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). ). The TIP, also known as a short-range plan, lists all transportation projects in an MPO's metropolitan planning area that seek federal transportation funding within at least a four-year ho
The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act or the FAST Act is a funding and authorization bill to govern United States federal surface transportation spending. It was passed by Congress on December 3, 2015, and President Barack Obama signed it on the following day.