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If President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to tap private investors to build infrastructure projects over the next 10 years is adopted by Congress, new tolling facilities are likely to take off along busy freight corridors, tolling proponents and several transportation groups said in recent interviews with Transport Topics.

Spending nearly an hour looking for a place to park a truck cuts into a commercial driver’s productivity and wages, a new study by the American Transportation Research Institute found.

ARLINGTON, Va.��— A recent federal grant aimed at improving traffic mobility along Interstate 95 and the port system at Norfolk will help position Virginia as a premier freight corridor on the East Coast in the coming years, the state’s governor told regional road builders here��Dec. 16.

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s first transportation secretary said he sees potential for the country’s transportation funding concerns to be addressed when President-elect Donald Trump’s administration and the Republican-led Congress kick off talks to reform tax policy over the next few months.

President-elect Donald Trump’s $1 trillion campaign proposal to finance roads and bridges through tax credits should steer clear of provisions that add to the deficit, the leader of the U.S. Senate told reporters in Washington on Dec. 12.

The clarification of an hours-of-service rule for truckers in a short-term funding bill was signed by President Obama shortly after the Senate cleared the bill on Dec. 9 and a shutdown of the federal government was averted.

WASHINGTON — The mainstream adoption of autonomous vehicles is bound to enhance safety, improve fuel economy and alleviate congestion along freight corridors, federal officials and trucking industry stakeholders told lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The clarification of an hours-of-service rule for truckers in a short-term funding bill was signed by President Obama shortly after the Senate cleared the bill Dec. 9 and a shutdown of the federal government was averted.

WASHINGTON — Allowing states to establish tolling facilities on existing interstate highways would help finance large-scale infrastructure projects, the former governor of Pennsylvania argued while on a panel here on Dec. 8.