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.

2015 STRR Act – T&I Overview Document

STRR vs DRIVE Comparison – Highway Formula Program Totals, By Year

T&I Leaders Release Text of Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill

What Happens Next With the Surface Transportation Extension?

House Homeland Committee Approves Transportation Security Bills

MAP-21’s Regulatory Deadlines: A Status Report

Future Of Stand-Alone PTC Deadline Extension Uncertain

1978 Airline Deregulation Bill Signing Ceremony Memo and Remarks

Rewriting the Rules of the Road

1998 TEA21 Bill Signing Ceremony (Video)

Capitol Hill Events – Week of October 5, 2015
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.
