Surface Transportation
- Working Paper
Fiscal Substitution of Investment for Highway Infrastructure: Working Paper 2018-08
The federal government provides grants to state and local governments for their transportation infrastructure. State and local governments use some of those funds to replace funds that they would have provided for such investment.
- Presentation
Approaches to Making Infrastructure Spending More Productive
Presentation by Chad Shirley, Deputy Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, at the Transportation Research Board’s International Transportation and Economic Development Conference.
- Report
Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on Oversight of CBO Conducted by the Senate Committee on the Budget
On January 24, the Senate Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Keith Hall testified about CBO’s work in 2017 and its future plans. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Presentation
Issues for the Renewable Fuel Standard
Presentation by Terry Dinan, Senior Adviser in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division, and by David Austin and Ron Gecan, who are Principal Analysts in that division.
- Blog Post
Spending on Infrastructure and Investment
Last month, Members of Congress asked CBO about budgetary and economic issues related to infrastructure and investment. This blog post provides additional information about those issues and highlights some of CBO’s related work.
- Presentation
The Budgetary Treatment of Surface Transportation Programs and Federal Financing Instruments
Presentation by Sarah Puro, Principal Analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Transportation Research Forum.
- Presentation
Pricing Freight Transport to Account for External Costs
Presentation by David Austin, an analyst in CBO’s Microeconomics Studies Division, at the 91st Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International.
- Presentation
Accounting for External Costs in Pricing Freight Transport
Presentation by David Austin, an analyst in CBO’s Microeconomics Studies Division, at the Georgetown Freight Rail Colloquium.
- Presentation
The FAST Act and the Budgetary Treatment of Federal Financing Instruments
Presentation by Sarah Puro, Principal Analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Annual Conference of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.
- Presentation
Alternatives for Making Federal Highway Spending More Productive
Presentation by Chad Shirley, CBO’s Deputy Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, at the Transportation Policy & Finance Summit of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA).