
The National Transportation Policy Project (NTPP) is bringing new voices to the transportation debate to create a dynamic and enduring vision for the future of federal surface transportation policy. The project is composed of a broad coalition of transportation policy experts, business and civic leaders, and is chaired by four distinguished former elected officials who served at the federal, state, and local levels.
Performance Driven: Achieving Wiser Investment in Transportation
June 16, 2011

For years there has been overwhelming evidence that the U.S. is failing to maintain its highways, bridges, and transit systems, and consistently falling short in making the infrastructure investments needed to provide for the long-term needs of our growing population and economy.
Finding transportation funds
March 7, 2012
The Obama administration and Congress appear unwilling to increase transportation investment by either higher federal motor fuels taxes or new forms of federal surface transportation user fees. So Congress needs to give states and metropolitan regions greater flexibility to increase user-related revenue — and then use these new funding streams to leverage greater investment from both public and private resources.
Transportation bill is an opportunity for lawmakers to rethink federal spending
March 27, 2012
We believe there's a need for more investment in surface transportation, yet we also understand the very real need to cut the deficit and the debt. In the current political and economic climate, there's little apparent taste to increase the federal motor fuels taxes either in the Administration or in Congress. That leaves us with the imperative to pay for the roads, bridges, trains and buses that we need while keeping costs at manageable levels.
Report: Air traffic control improvements would save money
Article · USA Today · April 4, 2012
Dynamic Tolling Coming To Virginia Express Lanes
Article · WAMU 88.5 · April 1, 2012
Infrastructure is win-win-win-win
Article · The Economic Policy Institute Blog · March 30, 2012
Bottom-Up Implementation of VMT Fees
April 23, 2012
Resources to Fund National Goals
April 2, 2012
On Transportation, Celebrate the Possible
Jan. 18, 2012