AASHTO adopts six surface transportation reauthorization policy resolutions

The Board of Directors of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials unanimously approved six policy resolutions this 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.

Those policy resolutions concern safety; funding, finance, and innovation; project delivery; the federal-aid highway program; public transportation; and rail transportation.

Garrett Eucalitto, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation and AASHTO’s 2024-2025 president, said those policy resolutions offer key insights from the organization’s 52 member departments on crucial aspects of the nation’s transportation system that reauthorization legislation should address.

Those resolutions also dovetail with the broad vision statement and three core policy principles regarding surface transportation reauthorization legislation also unanimously adopted by AASHTO’s board in April.

“As AASHTO members look forward to the reauthorization of surface transportation programs prior to the expiration of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in September 2026, the nation’s state departments of transportation express the critical importance of sound policy and stable transportation funding provided through this multiyear bill,” Eucalitto said.

“The federally-assisted state-administered program and the formula-based funding that underpins the surface transportation bill remains foundational to the work of every single state DOT in meeting their goals of improving safety, mobility, and access for everyone across the country,” he noted.

“These policy resolutions will help Congress and the Administration build a surface transportation reauthorization package that ensures a safe, interconnected, well-maintained, and well-operated national transportation network that is essential to our nation’s security, our nation’s economy, and the quality of life of every American,” Eucalitto added.