The Motor Carriers Accountability Act, introduced in the House Tuesday, would require motor carriers to lessen hardships due to unwarranted and excessive passenger delays in interstate motor carrier t...
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Legislation introduced Wednesday aims to reduce carbon pollution from the national highway system. The transportation sector is the country’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, producing 28 pe...
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The Fair and Open Skies Act was introduced in the House this week, pledging to prohibit the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) from granting foreign air carrier permits to those airlines seekin...
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Experts in the transportation industry told a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday that passing long-term surface transportation legislation is critical to maintaining the country’s highways, bridges, tra...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants to 264 airports throughout the country, as well as in the Pacific Islands and the District of Col...
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A group of legislators recently pressed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a review of the nation’s Move Over laws following multiple accounts of police officers being struck and killed ...
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a notice in the Federal Register last week seeking comments on a proposed regulation change that would modify fire protection on airplanes. ...
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In a new assessment from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the increasing length of freight trains was found to be potential safety risks. Some of these trains are nearly 3 miles long acc...
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More than 200 organizations and elected officials recently sent a letter to Congress urging the a change to the federal transportation program. “For decades, federal policy has prioritized high...
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The average train length has grown approximately 25 percent since 2008, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study. The average train lengths in 2017 were between 1.2 and 1.4 mile...
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A bipartisan Senate effort yielded a new bill this week, meant to alter how the government oversees the transportation of agricultural products. Under the Agricultural Trucking Relief Act, the defi...
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U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) recently questioned Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson and other officials on the railroad’s failure to connect rural areas to the rest of the country. "I really hope moving ...
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During an oversight hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee last week, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) addressed Amtrak CEO and President Richard Anderson, demanding details on efforts to preserve and imp...
Read MoreFive measures focused on transportation and infrastructure were included in an appropriations act that passed the House Tuesday. The legislation is called the Commerce, Justice, Science, Agricultur...
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The U.S. House this week approved a $383.3 billion package of 2020 appropriations bills, including critical funding for public transit and passenger rail infrastructure. If passed by both the Sena...
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The Pennsylvania state House recently advanced a resolution that urges the federal government to make the resiliency of the country’s infrastructure a priority. The resolution asks the federal go...
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Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Gary Peters (D-MI) sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week urging represe...
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Fuel-economy standards have increased the price of new vehicles, and this is preventing many families from making new car purchases, Heidi King, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ...
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The cities of Oakland and San Francisco will benefit from $300 million in Capital Investment Grants (CIG) in the days ahead, authorized by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to improve capacity ...
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The Modernize the Truck Fleet (MTF) coalition rallied in Washington, D.C., last week to urge Congress to support two bipartisan House bills that would repeal the 12 percent federal excise tax (FET) on...
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