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Week of February 6, 2017

Federal Governance
Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis

Regulatory Freeze Continues as Agencies Extend Deadlines and Regroup

February 8, 2017 - Federal agencies are extending the effective dates of published rules and reviewing others for compliance with President Trump's regulatory freeze.

Automated Vehicles, Highways, State Governance, Traffic Safety
Feb 8, 2017 | Greg Rogers

Safety Association Urges States to Exercise Restraint with Autonomous Vehicle Laws

February 8, 2017 - As autonomous vehicles have rushed into the spotlight, many states and cities have worked to understand how to best accommodate the emerging technology while ensuring its safe deployment. But the Governors...

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Airports, Federal Budget, Federal Governance, Fuel tax, Highway Trust Fund, Highways, Ports

Stakeholders, DeFazio Send Trump Infrastructure Ideas

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis
February 8, 2017 - Recently, President Trump received unsolicited advice on transportation infrastructure financing from two different sources - stakeholder...
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Federal Budget, Federal Governance

New Estimates of “Tax Expenditure” Costs Released

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis
February 8, 2017 - The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (the tax-estimating counterpart to the Congressional Budget Office’s spending estimators)...
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Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Public/Private Partnerships

New Study Touts Private Financing, but Capital Needs an Environment of Certainty

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Emily Han
February 8, 2017 - The Reason Foundation released a report last month about the federal barriers to private investment in...
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Amtrak, Aviation, Environment, Federal Governance, Highways, Public transit, Railroads

Lipinski Introduces Bill to Strengthen Buy America Rules

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis
February 8, 2017 - Yesterday, Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) introduced a bill to strengthen and expand the “Buy America” statutes...
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Automated Vehicles, Local governance, TNCs

The Self-Driving Honeymoon is Over for Uber and Pittsburgh

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Greg Rogers
The relationship between Uber and city officials in Pittsburgh, the transportation network company's test site for self-driving cars, appears to...
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Automated Vehicles, TNCs

Why Uber and Lyft Re-Routed Their Self-Driving Ambitions

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Greg Rogers
February 8, 2017 On January 31st, Uber and Daimler announced an agreement to deploy autonomous vehicles on Uber’s ridesharing network....
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Equity, Local governance, Transit Technology

Three Things to Know About the Other Smart Cities

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Rui Neiva
To discuss the progress among the finalist cities after the Smart City Challenge, Eno convened a panel of representatives from...
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Automated Vehicles, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, State Governance

Three Things to Know about Automated Vehicles

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Rui Neiva
Eno hosted a panel at its recent Capital Convergence conference on AVs and what recent federal guidelines mean for the...
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Automated Vehicles, Connected Vehicles, Trucking, Unmanned Aerial Systems

How Can Automation Improve Freight Delivery?

February 9, 2017
Feb 9, 2017 | Jeff Davis
At Eno’s Capital Convergence conference, held last month, one of the sessions examined the impact that existing and imminent new...
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Federal Governance

House Democrats Fill Remainder of Committee Leadership Posts

February 8, 2017
Feb 8, 2017 | Jeff Davis
Last week, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives filled the remainder of their posts on subcommittees for the new...
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Aircraft, Automated Vehicles, Aviation Safety, Federal Governance, Homeland security

Capitol Hill Events - Week of February 13, 2017

February 7, 2017
Feb 7, 2017 | Jeff Davis
Tuesday, February 14 - House Energy and Commerce - Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection - subcommittee hearing on...

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