AASHTO recently sponsored a Congressional Forum on funding and financing surface transportation in the coming decade. Academic co-sponsors were America 2050 at the Regional Plan Association; Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania; Georgia Institute of Technology; Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota; Keston Institute of Infrastructure and Public; Finance at the University of Southern California.
Over 25 staff members of Senate and House committees participated. John Horsley, Executive Director of AASHTO, made one of the presentations. He explained in stark terms the short term funding crisis the Highway Trust Fund currently faces and offered a new solution – to replace the current excise tax on gas and diesel with a national sales tax on motor fuels.
PartnerFounder and former chairman of Nossaman’s Infrastructure Group, Geoffrey Yarema has spent more than three decades developing national best practices for innovative procurement, contracting and financing structures that ...
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