Modest tweaks to the Railroad Track Maintenance Tax Credit (the 45G tax credit) could provide a source of stable funding to specifically support improvements identified—but not funded—under the Corridor ID program. This proposed pairing marries a planning program with a source of predictable, programmatic funding.

Read the full report here. Executive summary Federal transportation investment in the United States suffers from both a quantity problem and a quality problem.  The quantity problem is much-discussed, and rightfully so: the United States spends less than peer countries, even as U.S. infrastructure costs are far higher. Passenger interest in  new mass transit and […]

The federal government has several options beyond what it authorized in BIL and IRA to empower state and local government investment in critical infrastructure that both lowers costs and helps drive decarbonization and resilience.

The United States Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau is requesting comments on its proposed America’s Great Corridors of Commerce (AGCC) program, a “voluntary, applicant-driven process in which [right-of-way (ROW)] owners propose corridors for strategic colocation of utility infrastructure in the transportation ROW through an innovative public-private partnership (P3) model“. CPE is pleased to offer […]

This piece is part of IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook, a collection of proposals for reducing American transit construction costs. Summary Most federal support for US transit and rail capital projects comes in the form of discretionary grants, which warp incentives and drive up project costs. By contrast, predictable multi-year funding is the norm in peer […]