The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University has released a report that provides a brief history of transportation revenue policies and potential futures in California. It also predicts transportation revenue under the recently enacted Senate Bill 1 , the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Research Report 898: A Guide to Developing Financial Plans and Performance Measures for Transportation Asset Management. The report presents guidance for state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other agencies conducting financial analyses and developing financial plans to sup...

The American Transportation Research Institute has released a report that provides marginal cost data on motor carrier operations. This report, which includes the most recent 2018 cost data, may assist the trucking industry with gathering operational cost data.

The Congressional Research Service has released a report that summarizes all DOT funding in fiscal year 2018. The DOT appropriations bills fund federal programs covering aviation, highways and highway safety, public transit, intercity rail, maritime safety, pipelines, and related activities.

The Congressional Research Service has released a report that addresses federal funding of rural roads. This report examines the special challenges of maintaining rural roads and presents data on their use and condition. It also looks at federal spending on rural roads and discusses relevant policy issues for Congress.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board has released 12 early access papers addressing finance issues in transportation, including: The CLIOSjre Process: A Flexible Multicriteria, Multistakeholder Decision Framework for Transportation Planning under Uncertainty ( link ) Investigating the Pricing Impacts of the American Airlines and US Airways Merger ( ...

The Center for Clean Air Policy at the University of California at Berkeley has released a report that outlines the financial incentives available to reduce up-front costs of clean freight and commercial transportation technologies. This report identifies the scale of effort, the application timeframe and process, and other factors for these technologies.

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has released a report that evaluates five systems that received Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants and other federal funds. This report estimates TIGER grants’ impacts on property values, changes in business and employment growth, and impacts on household job accessibility and travel times.

The International Transport Forum has released a report that identifies the state-of-the-practice in transportation appraisal. This report focuses on how governments can utilize the existing policy frameworks to strategically address regional challenges.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 198: The Relationship Between Transit Asset Condition and Service Quality documents the development of a quantitative method for characterizing service quality and demonstrates how this quantitative measure varies with changes in asset condition. It provides guidance on how asset condition and transit service quality relate in te...