State Officials Rethinking Funding Decisions As Highway Law Requires Risk-Based Plans
Peter Stephanos, director of Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Performance Management said that a rulemaking on freight performance standards for states is likely to be issued in the middle of 2014, following the release of other highway safety measures. The target date for implementation of all performance standards is spring 2015, and states will be required to provide updates on how they are continuing to address congestion at freight bottlenecks.