Its primary goal is to advocate strong federal investment in transportation infrastructure.
ARTBA, based in Washington, D.C., is a federation of private firms, public agencies, and associations. It is the only national association to represent all sectors of the transportation construction industry.
Road and highway builders organized an association in 1902 that represented them as an industry. It evolved from a bicycle group founded 22 years earlier called the League of American Wheelmen
According to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), in 2002 the industry generated more than $200 billion annually in U.S. economic activity and provided jobs for approximately 2.2 million workers.