Airlines for America (A4A) President and CEO Nicholas E. Calio recently sent U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a letter, urging airline operations remain safe and reliable over the summer t...
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Through a letter dispatched to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg last week, more than 60 members of Congress urged changes to the licensing process for motor fuel truck haulers as means to ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation recently released its Air Travel Consumer Report for April 2022, which showed that consumer complaints against airlines were up more than 300 percent from before ...
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Transit initiatives in 32 states and two territories affected by persistent poverty will soon get a boost from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA), which announced last week $16.2 million in...
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The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), an organization advancing the research and deployment of intelligent transportation technologies, recently released its Principles for ...
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In the wake of a new consensus study conducted by the National Academies, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, called on the Federal Federal ...
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In what the White House has dubbed a federal gas tax holiday, President Joe Biden requested Congress to suspend the federal gas tax through September, and on states to follow suit with some direct rel...
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The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and Responsibility.org recently awarded Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and Nevada grants to enhance their ability to deter and detect alcoho...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is advocating that governments adopt a Long Term Aspirational Goal to decarbonize aviation during this year's 41st Assembly of the International Civi...
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In its latest update on 5G, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) laid out last week a phased approach by which it says commercial air travel and 5G C-band deployment could co-exist, without inter...
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Building off of a previous $354 million federal grant, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced an up to $203.3 million loan issued last week in support of Indiana’s rail extensions und...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released a proposed rule that would reduce greenhouse gasses emitted by most large aircraft flying in U.S. airspace. Under the rule, new subsonic...
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The U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA), a part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), awarded $8.4 million to 17 projects in 16 states last week in an effort to improve public transportatio...
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With the bicameral introduction of the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act, U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and U.S. Rep. Jesús García (D-IL), along with a host of cosponsors, seek to boost pay, benefits...
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Several bills advanced by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure this week included major attempts to revamp aircraft maintenance and the aerospace supply chain, among other measures...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released some of its first insights into the performance of advanced vehicle technologies this week, owing to data collected over the last ye...
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The House of Representatives pushed through a bill known as the Advanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act (S.B. 516) this week, setting up some improvements to planning and coordination be...
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A new bill promising to encourage aviation infrastructure innovation, the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization Act (AAIM/H.R. 6270), made it through the House this week, with pledges to crea...
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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently awarded 25 projects in 13 states nearly $2 million in Railroad Trespassing Enforcement grants and $207,000 in Railroad Trespassing Suicide Prevention...
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The Ocean Shipping Reform Act (S.B. 3580), which advanced through the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday, now awaits the signature of President Joe Biden. The bipartisan, bicameral legislatio...
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