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August 15, 2025 - UP’s purchase of Norfolk Southern could create a modern coast-to-coast railroad empire, but it’s not the first time America has spanned the continent by rail.
August 26, 2023 - Why does Texas pay 20 cents on the dollar to build new federal-aid highways, but California only pays 16.4 cents on the dollar? The answer is a 102-year-old law that stopped making ...
August 1, 2025 - Transportation nominees continue to be approved in committee but fail to make it to the Senate floor.
July 31, 2025 - On Thursday, Eno issued a report entitled “Freight Rail for the 21st Century: Opportunities for Mode Shift to Improve Efficiency and Resiliency.” ...
There has been a lot of talk in the last week about the “80-20 highway-transit split,” and not all of it was accurate. Herewith: a brief explainer. What 80-20 originally meant: In 1982, a political ...
April 18, 2023 - The Federal Highway Administration recently released its updated index of highway construction costs for the July-September 2022 quarter, and it shows that inflation in this sector is ...
July 30, 2021 - Eno’s newest report Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better, is a major research, policy, and communications project to analyze current and historical ...
October 18, 2019 - Data from the newly released 2018 American Community Survey shows that telework continued its upward trend, while driving alone to work trended slightly downward. Several regions ...
January 31, 2019 - The new CBO budget forecast allows us to estimate how much money would be raised by proposals to increase gasoline and diesel fuel taxes.
April 27, 2022 - Inflation in highway construction cost components has badly eroded government highway spending in the past. How much inflation would it take to nullify the bipartisan infrastructure ...
May 2, 2025 - On Tuesday, April 29th, the House T&I Subcommittee on Highways and Transit met to discuss potential long-term solutions for the Highway Trust Fund.
March 26, 2024 - Yesterday, the Federal Highway Administration updated its quarterly index of highway construction costs, revealing that the cost index (the NHCCI) increased by 6.0 percent in the July ...