Every year, transportation providers are being asked to do more with less. America's highway, transit, rail, ports and aviation infrastructure is aging, yet in most places, available funding has been unable to keep pace with construction cost inflation, let alone the additional demand associated with a growing population and increasing global trade. Because more than 40% of all public capital investment in surface transportation comes from the federal government, federal legislation has a significant impact on our nation's transportation investment. Now, with climate change actions looming and major transportation bills due for reauthorization, many are watching proposed legislation closely in order to be prepared for changes before they are enacted.

Congress is currently debating a number of critical transportation-related infrastructure bills, including a long-term surface transportation authorization bill to replace SAFETEA-LU, reauthorization of Federal Aviation programs, short-term interim extensions of these bills, and FY'10 DOT Appropriations. Congress is under tremendous pressure to identify new sources of revenue, to increase investment in all modes of transportation, and to pass required legislation in a timely manner.

The PB Transportation Update website, developed by Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., is designed to help you to track and analyze the rapidly evolving legislative developments and related politics. The site provides a consolidated location where you can find copies of House and Senate bill texts, analysis and summaries of those bills, funding tables, information about project earmarks, and related congressional testimony and reports. The site also links to the PB Washington Update newsletters, which provide reporting and analysis of important legislative activities as they happen, and to the websites of key congressional committees, US DOT offices and modal agencies, and transportation industry groups. In addition, there are profiles of PB Policy Experts who are nationally recognized, knowledgeable advisors on these legislative issues.