Government Industry
Federal-Aid Highways: Cost and Oversight of Major Highway and Bridge Projects--Issues and Options.
General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony, June, 2003
GAO-03-764T May 8, 2003
Improving the oversight and controlling the costs of major highway and bridge projects is important for the federal government, which often pays 80 percent of these projects' costs. Widespread consensus exists on the need to fund such projects, given the doubling of freight traffic and worsening congestion projected over the next 20 years, yet growing competition for limited federal and state funding dictates that major projects be managed ...