The Board of Directors of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) unanimously approved six policy resolutions last week at its 2025 Spring Meeting in Hartford, CT, that detail the organization’s positions on key issues that Congress needs to address as it works on renewing critical surface transportation reauthorization legislation.
The policy resolutions concern: Safety; Funding, finance, and innovation; Project delivery; the federal-aid highway program; Public transportation; and Rail transportation.
Led by the Transportation Policy Forum, this official package of AASHTO’s surface transportation reauthorization recommendations to Congress and the Administration was adopted by the Board of Directors on May 15, 2025, in Hartford, Connecticut. In the form of policy resolutions, AASHTO’s reauthorization package is composed of:
- Vision statement and core policy principles;
- Policy recommendations through six mode and subject based resolutions, and;
- More issue background and details are available in the Phase I and Phase II AASHTO
policy white papers at https://transportation.org/policy/.
