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A newly formed American Crisis in Transportation Coalition (ACT) seeks to expand the national understanding of a “serious deterioration of America’s transportation system,” and to educate the public and political leaders on the system’s funding needs, ACT officials said in a prepared statement.

ACT’s founders are former Wisconsin Secretary of Transportation Frank Busalacchi and John Boffa, owner of marketing and research firms in Washington, D.C. Busalacchi has served as a member of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, and formerly chaired the States for Passenger Coalition.

ACT will use as its guiding document the final report of the surface transportation commission, which identified a $225 billion annual shortfall for the nation's transportation system.

“Roads and bridges are deteriorating at an alarming rate,” Busalacchi said. “Transit systems on which millions of Americans depend to get to work are experiencing funding shortfalls. Amtrak trains travel through tunnels and bridges built in the 1800s. [And] the federal gasoline tax has not been increased since 1993.”