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.
A lot of information relating to the surface transportation bill in the House was released last Friday evening, and this...
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To keep up what Eno started, we are proposing a new look at the old rules of the road. These...
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Monday, November 2 – House Rules – full committee hearing set parameters for general debate on the Senate amendment to...
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October 29, 2015 - Both Houses of Congress cleared legislation this week that will extend expiring Highway Trust Fund spending...
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October 28, 2015 - The U.S. Senate has approved H.R. 3819, the three-week Highway Trust Fund extension through November 20...
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October 28, 2015 - Last night, the House Rules Committee set the stage for today’s House consideration of the FY...
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Text of H.R. 3819, a surface transportation extension from October 30 to November 20, 2015, which includes positive train control...
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October 23, 2015 - The chairmen of the House and Senate committees that over see railroads, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA)...
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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee adopted twelve amendments to H.R. 3767 (the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of...
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Section-by-section summary of H.R. 3763, the STRR Act, as introduced in the House on October 20 - prepared by the...
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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.