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.
May 21, 2015 - The Senate is preparing to vote on a two-month Highway Trust Fund extension.
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Wednesday, July 15 – Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation – full committee business meeting to consider S. 1732, the Commerce...
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March 5, 2015 - The long, slow-motion crisis over federal Homeland Security funding for fiscal year 2015 is over, as...
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February 26, 2015 - The Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle on the path to preventing a partial shutdown of...
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April 22, 2015 - The Transportation-HUD subcommittee received an allocation of $55.27 billion. On its face, this is a $1.5...
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April 16, 2015 - ETW analysis of CBO data shows that even if Congress shut down new Highway Trust Fund...
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January 28, 2015 - On Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook. The baseline...
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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.