Week of February 8, 2016

Amtrak, Appropriations, FASTLANE, Federal Budget, Federal Governance,...

Feb 11, 2016 | Jeff Davis

President Obama’s Final Transportation Budget Maintains FAST Act, Avoids Spending Tradeoffs

February 11, 2016 - President Obama submitted his final budget to Congress this week, covering fiscal year 2017. The budget proposal manages to live within the spending constraints that the President agreed to three months...

Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, Aviation Safety,...

Feb 11, 2016

House T&I Panel Holds Hearing On; Prepares to Mark Up FAA Restructuring BIll

February 11, 2016 - At the request of ranking member Peter DeFazio (D-OR), the Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee held a full committee hearing yesterday on the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act, and...

Appropriations, Emissions, Environment, FASTLANE, Federal Budget, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Highway Trust Fund, Highways, Railroads, Resilience

The President's "21st Century Clean Transportation" Plan - Bold and Transformative, or Reminder of a Missed Opportunity?

February 11, 2016

Feb 11, 2016 | Jeff Davis

February 10, 2016 - The most prominently hyped part of President Obama’s final budget (at least where transportation and infrastructure...

Appropriations, Aviation Safety, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Homeland security, Maritime

Homeland Budget Requests New Aviation Security Fees; Coast Guard Procurement Cuts; Small Cuts in Transpo Security Grants

February 11, 2016

Feb 11, 2016 | Jeff Davis

February 10, 2016 - The President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 proposes large and politically unrealistic increases in aviation...

Appropriations, Federal Budget, Federal Funding, Federal Governance, Maritime, Ports

President’s Budget Once Again Proposes Unlikely Cuts in Water Projects

February 11, 2016

Feb 11, 2016 | Jeff Davis

February 10, 2016 - President Obama’s final budget continues a bipartisan trend of Presidents proposing sweeping cuts in the civil...

Federal Governance

A Conversation With Alan Boyd, Part 2

February 8, 2016

Feb 8, 2016 | Jeff Davis

February 8, 2016 - Part two of our exclusive interview with Alan Boyd, the first Secretary of Transportation.

Environment, Federal Governance, Maritime, Ports

Senate Holds Hearing on Next Water Resources Authorization

February 11, 2016

Feb 11, 2016 | Emily Han

February 11, 2016 - The Senate Environment and Public Works committee held a hearing this week to discuss a new...

Highways, Pedestrian safety, Traffic Safety

NHTSA Reports Traffic Fatalities Back On the Rise

February 11, 2016

Feb 11, 2016 | Emily Han

February 9, 2016 - Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released their latest estimates of traffic fatalities...

Automated Vehicles, Freight, Public transit, Shared Vehicles, Transit Technology

Eno Releases Workshop White Paper on “Emerging Technology Trends in Transportation”

February 11, 2016

Feb 11, 2016 | Paul Lewis

Technology has been rapidly changing society, the economy, and the way people live, work, and interact with each other. Driven...

Workforce development

Now Accepting Nominations for the 2016 Eno Future Leaders Development Conference

February 11, 2016

Each Spring, the Eno Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC)brings a select group of the top graduate students in transportation and...

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