A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both the House and Senate recently released a joint statement urging Department of Transportation to change the previous administration’s automated vehicle polic...
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Five states’ safety offices recently received grants from the Governors Highway Safety Association and Ford Driving Skills for Life (Ford DSFL) to fund teen safe driving programs. The grants were...
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As of this month, LATAM Airlines now runs four non-stop flights per week from Boston to São Paulo, Brazil, following the routes inaugural flight on July 2. The flight was commemorated with a flag-...
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Six state departments of transportation projects have garnered regional America's Transportation Awards accolades for stellar industry work. The 11th annual competition, which is sponsored by the A...
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Following the massive Takata air bag recall, which began in 2013, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has now called on automakers to detail replacement efforts on their website...
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U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) urged the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) last week to choose Nevada as the site of future, national dialogues on the evolving technology of autonomous vehicles. ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced last week that $9.925 million in grants would be issued to 16 communities under the Small Community Air Service Development Program. Those comm...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the number of reported serious runway incursions in fiscal year 2017 declined to eight from 19 in the previous fiscal year. Serious runway incursions ...
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Senate Democrats wrote the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) this week, requesting action on safety regulations for keyless ignition vehicles. ...
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The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection heard testimony this week on drug-impaired driving and the current efforts to detect and prevent it. Lack of statistics has been noted a...
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As more states open their doors to autonomous vehicle research and testing, a new Siemens report urges urban spaces to plan for and make adjustments to accommodate such vehicles among their infrastruc...
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Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced Tuesday the Transportation Empowerment Act, designed to give states more control over their infrastructure spending by phasing ...
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Faced with stalled negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), automotive industry associations are pressing the United States, Canada, and Mexico to renew talks and get a moder...
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A complaint from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) garnered an official response from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this week, leading them to find Key West International A...
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Under a report required by the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) act, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released details on the National Highway Freight Network (NHFN) this week...
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Hundreds of representatives from both governmental and private interests assembled in Washington last week for a conference based around the potential of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to fill essentia...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued last week a final policy for the cancellation of numerous standard instrument approach procedures (IAPs) and updated its protocols. These procedure...
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Sandia National Laboratories along with U.K health sensor manufacturer Structural Monitoring Systems recently equipped an American suspension bridge with eight sensors, which will alert maintenance en...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation will soon launch a three-year pilot program that will allow military veterans and reservists between the ages of 18 and 20 years old to obtain military-equivalent...
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently denied the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s (OOIDA) request to be exempt from the electronic logging devices (ELD) ma...
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