The first goal of any transportation agency is safety. Yet almost 40,000 Americans die on the transportation system every year. New proposals for safer streets, better vehicle design, and crash avoidance technology are reshaping the narrative around safety in an effort to reverse the downward trend of transportation safety. Governments are also concerned about the security of the system. Terrorism, hacking, and international affairs can threaten the transportation systems that support the national economy.
December 22, 2020 - The final major legislation to be passed by Congress in 2020 contained another $0.9 trillion in...
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December 22, 2020 - Division F of the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2021 provides year-long funding for the Department...
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December 22, 2020 - As part of the massive omnibus funding bill passed by Congress yesterday, Congress also passed significant...
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December 11, 2020 - A possible government shutdown starting tonight was averted this afternoon when the Senate agreed to a...
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December 4, 2020 - A bipartisan bill providing an additional $908 billion in COVID aid gained a lot of momentum...
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October 23, 2020 - Talks between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on an additional round...
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U.S. mass transit providers and airport sponsors collectively spent another $2.6 billion of their $35 billion in special COVID-19 aid...
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October 9, 2020 - Many U.S. airlines and contractors are continuing a massive wave of layoffs that began on October...
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Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars
The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars (September 2018) concludes that until the federal government better understands the potential national security risks of using Chinese railcars in American transit systems, a one-year appropriations ban is more appropriate than a permanent policy change.