Surface Transportation: Investment Needs and the Budget

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来源：ARTBA 发布日期：2007-11-30

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), the consensus voice of the transportation construction industry, is pleased to submit this testimony on the critical topic of how to meet the nation’s surface transportation needs.

ARTBA, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2002, has over 5,000 member firms and member public agencies from across the nation. They belong to ARTBA because they support strong federal investment in transportation improvement programs to meet the needs and demands of the American public and business community. The industry we represent generates more than $200 billion annually in U.S. economic activity and sustains 2.5 million American jobs.

The federal government has played a key leadership role in setting surface transportation policy for nearly a century. The first Federal-Aid Road Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 when it became clear state and local
governments could not, on their own, develop and finance a highway system that could serve the nation’s transportation needs.

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