The members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation recently sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging them to enforce Open Skies agree...
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Reps. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) and Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) recently introduced legislation which would provide grants to small- and medium-size cities on a competitive basis for transportation. The bi...
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The Alliance to Save Energy recently chartered the 50 by 50 Commission with the aim of reducing energy use in the U.S. transportation sector by half by 2050. In the United States, transportation is...
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently opened bids for a pilot program to test the addition of tolls on existing interstate highways to fund their reconstruction. The call for prop...
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A new survey conducted by the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP has looked at the potential in the self-driving car market and assessed that the field is heating up with interested parties, even though imp...
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The average gasoline price in the United States has fallen for 15 of the past 20 days, according to the AAA, with the average is $2.46 per gallon. This week’s average is a penny less than last we...
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In support of a motion by Frontier Airlines pilots to strike if negotiations break down, the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) executive board has approved a $2 million grant. The g...
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The total number of fully certified professional air traffic controllers is the lowest it has been in three decades, but a national air traffic controller organization asserts that landmark legislatio...
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U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recently awarded the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) with an Assistance for Local Emergency Res...
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Following a recent commitment to industry collaboration on aviation security from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske, Airports Council International-North America...
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New Hampshire lawmakers, seemingly to make up for the fewer general aviation aircraft owners that their state has lost to neighboring Massachusetts — which doesn’t tax aircraft and plane sales —...
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Employees at auto-glass manufacturer Fuyao Glass America filed a request Monday with the National Labor Relations Board, citing unfair and unequal treatment on the job as well as unsafe, arbitrary pol...
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The House Committee on Financial Services recently advanced a bill that would increase consumers' access to lender privacy policies and modernize the privacy notification process of auto lenders. T...
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A policy panel hosted in Washington last week by the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) sought to address Trump administration efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agre...
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Following a number of reports that the Trump Administration will push for comprehensive reforms to the U.S. tax code, the American Trucking Association (ATA) released a public statement this week in s...
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Ranking Democrats on the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure recently sent a letter to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine Chao urging her to require drug testing...
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Public transit is a $66 billion annual industry, according to the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA), with every nine out of 10 trips benefiting the economy directly. Investment ...
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In response to comments from the Trump Administration that stated excessive regulations had unnecessary costs with few benefits, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) released a s...
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South Carolina’s Greenville County was recently awarded a $4 million Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) grant from the Federal Highway Administration ...
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Congress must move past the status quo and approve a long-term bill that reforms the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-P...
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