USDOT Outlines Path Forward With New Infrastructure Law

Roughly half the funding from the federal infrastructure package will be dispersed through the U.S. Department of Transportation, handing the agency a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink the U.S. transportation system.

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January 19, 2022 The recently passed federal infrastructure law will reshape the nation’s top transportation agency through new programs, priorities and funding, officials say. Roughly half of the funding from the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be dispersed through the U.S. Department of Transportation, helping to fund some 44 new programs to not only upgrade nearly every aspect of the nation’s transportation system, but to do it with a renewed ethos around safety, climate, equity, resilience and innovation. “Many of us have hoped for a major, well-funded transportation bill for a number of years. And now we have one,” said U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board last week. The board is a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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