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.
June 18, 2015 - House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced his panel will move legislation separating federal air traffic...
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July 30, 2015 - The Senate today is expected to pass both short-term and longer-term surface transportation legislation that will...
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It has been six years since the transportation community had the opportunity to mull over a six-year transportation bill written...
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We still do not know the cause of the Amtrak crash that killed 8 people and injured 200. But this...
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Change can be frightening. Big changes, like restructuring U.S. air traffic control (ATC) governance, even more so. On April 5,...
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April 28, 2015 - The House Appropriations Committee released the full text of the proposed Transportation-Housing appropriations bill for fiscal...
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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.