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Our three simple guiding principles are concrete, measurable, and have outcomes attached.
We need a new plan beyond "spend more money."

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Guide to the 2021 infrastructure law

The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure law now governs all federal transportation policy and funding through 2026. What do you need to know about it? Visit our hub for the new law.

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Transportation made simple

We make complex transportation issues more understandable through easy-to-understand reports, graphics, and interactive features, and other resources.

What do we believe? Our three principles

T4A's three principles: Invest in the rest, safety over speed, and fix it first

Recent Posts

Catch up with our most recent blog posts

  • Five for ’25: What to expect on transportation in the new year

    January will bring in a new presidential administration and a new Congress for the run-up to the reauthorization of the country’s transportation law...

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  • Meeting the moment after the 2024 elections

    We are heading towards a budgetary cliff on a transportation program that has failed to deliver on every one of its promises, from congestion and emissions...

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    Voters across America show support for more transportation options

    Throughout the United States, various measures for funding transportation improvements were approved, advancing efforts to invest in the rest at the local...

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  • Three transportation policy recommendations for state legislators and governors

    As new and returning governors and legislators prepare to take office, Transportation for America urges them to consider key transportation policy recommendations...

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  • backs of people at tcamp sticking sheets of paper with session proposals on the board
    A pause for TransportationCamp DC

    After careful consideration, Transportation for America is announcing that we have decided to pause TransportationCamp DC this coming January.

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  • A screenshot of a tool looking at the budgeted amount of GHG emissions through the lens of Business as Usual, Vehicle miles traveled reduction, and EV adoption Percentiles
    New tool to visualize transportation emissions—and how much we have left

    There is a limited amount of carbon emissions the US transportation sector can emit before the most extreme effects of climate change take hold. Our new...

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Featured T4America Resources

Get started with our landmark reports on a range of transportation issues


  • Fueling the crisis: Climate consequences of the 2021 infrastructure law
    Fueling the crisis: Climate consequences of the 2021 infrastructure law

    Three years ago, on November 15, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into…

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  • Electric vehicles & smart growth
    Electric vehicles & smart growth

    This page includes all of our resources on how to reduce emissions in an equitable way—and that path includes the EV transition.

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  • Gas tax alternatives: A policy evaluation framework
    Gas tax alternatives: A policy evaluation framework

    Much of the discussion about alternatives to the gas tax in recent years has focused on the idea of “fairness”—ensuring that…

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  • Divided by Design
    Divided by Design

    Examining how today’s transportation measures, models, and practices were shaped by the racist history of the 1950s and 60s, and…

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  • Community Connectors portal
    Community Connectors portal

    Transportation for America’s Community Connectors portal provides tools and information for advocates to decode the complex and confusing…

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  • Guide to the 2021 infrastructure law
    Guide to the 2021 infrastructure law

    The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure law now governs all federal transportation policy and funding through 2026. What do you…

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