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Posts Tagged ‘States’

Preparing for Automated Vehicles: Traffic Safety Issues for States

Thursday, August 23rd, 2018

The year is 2023. Some automated driving system (ADS) vehicles are on the road: vehicles that can operate without driver control under certain conditions. An officer is called to a crash scene. A car with an ADS had struck a pedestrian.

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It’s Time for States to Invest in Infrastructure

Monday, February 29th, 2016
Figure 1: Public Infrastructure Has Been Neglected

CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES
Reversing the decline in state investment in transportation, public buildings, water treatment systems, and other forms of vital infrastructure is key to creating good jobs and promoting full economic recovery — and this is an especially good time for states to do it.

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States’ Fiscal Initiatives Offer a Solution to the Impending Trust Fund Shortfall

Friday, June 6th, 2014

Innovation Newsbriefs
Vol. 25, No. 8

While transportation stakeholders and the Washington press corps are agonizing about the impending Highway Trust Fund shortfall and its impact on the federal transportation program, they are ignoring developments outside the Beltway that go a long way toward mitigating the prospective funding shortage. For in fact, individual states, far from standing idly by, are responding to the fiscal uncertainties in Washington by stepping up and augmenting their transportation budgets.

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Can-Do States

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

Innovation NewsBriefsVol. 24, No. 9 Recently, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) called for a $5.5 billion emergency federal program “to fix the nation’s backlog of deficient and structurally obsolete bridges”  (H.R. 2428).  He was responding to the well- publicized collapse of the  I-5 bridge  in Washington State . “It’s an emergency out there,” Rahall proclaimed at […]

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Are We There Yet? An Interactive Map Shows the Current State of Our Transportation Systems

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

With the upcoming holiday season, travelers can count on increased traffic challenges. It may be an appropriate time to become more focused on transportation issues. Transportation for America has prepared an information-packed interactive map for each state, so see how your state measures up against the rest of the nation. And, please share your holiday travel stories with us at InfrastructureUSA.org.

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