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.
March 29, 2017 - Thirty years ago this week, an 18-month struggle over the future of federal highway and mass...
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March 29, 2017 - Uber's automated vehicles are back on the road following a collision in Tempe, Arizona last week...
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Tuesday, April 4 - House Transportation and Infrastructure - Subcommittee on Aviation - subcommittee hearing on enabling innovation in the...
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March 23, 2017 - Across the coming years, U.S. Department of Transportation plans to release a series of data sets...
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March 17, 2017 - A March 8 House hearing examined a variety of air passenger and cargo service, flight attendant,...
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In which a longtime author of NHTSA vehicle safety regulations explains the process by which federal regulations are developed.
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March 17, 2017 - This week, the Senate Commerce Committee looked anew at issues relating to the benefits and safety...
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March 17, 2017 - A House hearing week examined how communities are implementing emerging technology and sophisticated data collection methods...
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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.