Blog & Resources

With federal resilience funding expanding and major award rounds underway, agencies must prioritize what to climate-proof first. The key is aligning land use so transportation isn’t trapped in endless repair cycles.

Terminal upgrades are only half the story. The next decade will be won by airports that fix access, manage the curb, and prepare for aviation’s climate transition.

A key FMCSA denial and evolving NHTSA crash reporting show the freight future will be governed, not just engineered. The early winners will be geofenced logistics nodes with clear rules and infrastructure.

Federal port funding is accelerating, including major FY26 PIDP availability. But without freight-ready zoning, staging space, and dedicated truck circulation, infrastructure upgrades won’t deliver their full value.

The $5B NEVI program is reorganizing where people stop, how long they stay, and what gets built next to highways. Cities that modernize zoning now can capture corridor value instead of watching it pass by.

Parking is the quietest line item that can kill a housing deal. Minimum parking requirements don’t just mandate asphalt—they mandate cost, delay, and building form. They change what can fit on a lot, what a lender will finance, and what a builder can deliver at a price the market can absorb. That’s why parking reform has become one of the fastest-moving zoning changes in the U.S. A useful benchmark: researchers tracking zoning codes nationally have found that roughly 20% of e