States are responsible for developing and implementing transportation strategies that encourage improved system performance, increased mobility, enhanced economic development and improved environmental outcomes. Achieving these complementary goals requires a combination of efforts at the state and national level.
The NGA Center supports governors and state policy leaders in their efforts to address challenges in governance, planning, funding and financing and performance measures.
The Future of the Interstate Highway System
The Interstate Highway System is the backbone of our country’s transportation system. Representing only 1 percent of the total U.S. public road mileage, it carries over 25 percent of all ...
Gov. Walz Testimony on Infrastructure: The Cost of Doing Nothing
Statement of The Honorable Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota Before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure Cannot ...
Preparing the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0
December 3, 2018 The Honorable Elaine ChaoSecretary, United States Department of Transportation1200 New Jersey Avenue, SEWashington, D.C. 20590RE: Preparing the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0 (ISBN 978-0-16-094944-9)Dear Secretary Chao:On ...
NGA/U.S. DOT Webinar on the Build America Bureau’s New Rural Projects Initiative
The webinar, hosted in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), introduced the U.S. DOT’s Build America Bureau and shared how states can finance transportation projects through the new ...
NGA Helping Governors Catch Up to the Speed of 21st Century Transportation
WASHINGTON -- The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) is launching a Transportation Learning Network to directly engage governors and their staff in exploring new approaches and ...
NGA Releases Roadmaps for Governors on Transportation and Energy Innovation
SANTA FE—The National Governors Association (NGA) released two new policy roadmaps at the 2018 NGA Summer Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, as the culmination of Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval’s NGA ...
Transportation and Energy Innovation Policy Roadmaps
The National Governors Association (NGA) has released two new policy roadmaps, which provide governors and senior state policy officials with ideas for how they can prepare their states for the ongoing ...
Governors Staying Ahead of the Transportation Innovation Curve
The United States is experiencing a transportation technology revolution that is moving us toward a future that is increasingly autonomous, connected, electric and shared. The revolution promises many benefits but ...
States Work to Improve Traffic Safety
WASHINGTON - The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) today announced five states, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia, have been selected to participate in a learning ...
State Public Safety and Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize how we move people and goods. As states navigate implementing this new technology, they face a number of potential public safety opportunities and ...
