Infrastructure Week: Freight in Focus
May 18, 2018 – During Infrastructure Week, two panels featuring freight experts and stakeholders emphasized the multimodal freight infrastructure needs across major U.S. industries.
Infrastructure Week: Planning for a Resilient Future
May 18, 2018 – Planning for and building resilient infrastructure can minimize life-cycle costs if changes in technology, security threats, and transportation/land use patterns are all taken into account in the larger context of climate change and population shifts.
Infrastructure Week: Four Themes from the East Coast Kickoff Event
Eno was on site at the East Coast Kickoff event, which featured leaders from federal, state, and local governments, labor organizations, and private companies.
FTA Commits First FY18 Capital Investment Grant Funding
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Eno Releases New Recommendations for Improving the Nation’s Rail Transit Infrastructure
May 17, 2018 – On Monday, Eno released a new report, Tools for a Smoother Ride: Managing Rail Assets and Leveraging Competition, which outlines the reforms needed to bring our rail systems into a state of good repair. The report’s recommendations include five steps that agencies and governments can take to reform and modernize how the industry approaches maintaining rail systems.
Senate Subcommittee Questions Commuter Rail’s Lack of PTC Progress
May 17, 2018 – The lack of progress in implementing Positive Train Control (PTC) on the part of some commuter rail lines fell under scrutiny at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies.
Guest Op-Ed: A U.S. Air Traffic Control Corporation Is Inevitable
I maintain that the United States will eventually remove the ATC function from safety regulator FAA and remove it from the federal budget, converting it into some kind of self-supporting corporation.
House Bill Trims State Water Infrastructure Grants but Expands WIFIA Loans
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Guest Op-Ed: Do We Need to Upgrade from “Informed Consent” to “Informed Risk” with Autonomous Vehicles?
The danger that consumers are not clearly consenting to conditions they have read and understand is a potential impediment to the continued adoption of new and larger innovations like self-driving vehicles.
Infrastructure Week: Panel Discusses Bridging the Gap Between Transportation and Healthcare in the DC Region
Due to the high cost of emergency medical care, healthcare providers are starting to see the clear link between transportation and missed appointments and how including transportation services in their plans can reduce costs.