Construction Equipment
Ag Equipment
Roadbuilding
Dealers
Business
Technology
Tag: surface transportation infrastructure
Safety
TIGER grant request at $10.2 billion, surpasses available funding
An "overwhelming demand" for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants has far surpassed available funding, with applications to the U.S. Department of Transportation for TIGER 2012 grants totaling $10.2 billion, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on April 5. This number of applications "far exceeding the $500 million set aside for the program." The Department received 703 applications from all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, according to LaHood.
April 10, 2012
Roadbuilding
TIGER grant request at $10.2 billion, surpasses available funding
An “overwhelming demand” for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants has far surpassed available funding, with applications to the U.S. Department of Transportation for TIGER 2012 grants totaling $10.2 billion, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on April 5. This number of applications “far exceeding the $500 million set aside for the program.” The […]
April 5, 2012
Roadbuilding
Report: Successes and failures of public-private partnerships
A new study from the Competitive Enterprise Institute looks at several public-private partnership (PPP) case studies in both the surface transportation and real estate sectors. He finds that the growth of PPPs has increased efficiency in the transportation sector – which has historically been dominated by government monopolies – but that the spread of PPPs […]
January 12, 2011
Business
Report: Successes and failures of public-private partnerships
A new study from the Competitive Enterprise Institute looks at several public-private partnership (PPP) case studies in both the surface transportation and real estate sectors. He finds that the growth of PPPs has increased efficiency in the transportation sector – which has historically been dominated by government monopolies – but that the spread of PPPs […]
January 11, 2011
Page 1 of 1