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You are here: Home1 / Issue: Special Edition - Rethinking USDOT for a New Era - November 14, 2025

Special Edition - Rethinking USDOT for a New Era - November 14, 2025

Nov 14, 2025 | Patrick McKenna

Introduction: Reimagining USDOT for a New Era of American Mobility

November 14, 2025 - The nation’s most important transportation institution is overdue for a serious, future-facing conversation about its mission and structure. 

Nov 14, 2025 | Christopher Coes

Time to Modernize USDOT: Integrating Housing, Economic Development, and Transportation for America’s Next Century

November 14, 2025 - When federal housing, transportation, and economic development programs operate in silos, project delivery slows and costs rise. A unified approach under a strengthened USDOT could help align priorities and improve results.

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Rethinking How the U.S. Department of Transportation Is Organized

November 14, 2025
Tyler Duvall
November 14, 2025 - USDOT’s legacy structure no longer reflects how modern transportation systems operate, and in this article, Duvall...
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Integration of the Federal Aviation Administration within the US Department of Transportation

November 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 | Grace Truslow
November 14, 2025 - The article traces the FAA’s historical separation within USDOT and examines how physical, technological, and organizational...
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Scaling What Works: Building Capacity for Evidence-Driven Innovation in Surface Transportation

November 14, 2025
Marcia Pincus, PMP
November 14, 2025 - Transportation is entering a new era of technological possibility, yet progress remains fragmented. To fully realize...
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What's Next for Independent Regulatory Agencies?

November 14, 2025
Roger Nober
November 14, 2025 - Executive Order 14215 and the administration’s recent removal of independent agency commissioners have raised a fundamental...
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To Reorganize USDOT, Start with the Senate Authorizers

November 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 | Rebecca Higgins
November 14, 2025 - Decades of proposals to reorganize USDOT consistently stall not for policy reasons, but because of fragmented...
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Improved Data Collection and Analysis Is Key to Better Decisionmaking

November 14, 2025
Alan Pisarski
November 14, 2025 - We still have serious gaps in transportation data collection, both at the national level (passengers) and...
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Restore the Secretary's Freedom to Assign Roles to Assistant Secretaries

November 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 | Jeff Davis
November 14, 2025 - Congress should once again give the Secretary the authority to devote senior staff to specific cross-cutting...
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