The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) awarded $46.3 million in grants last month to assist in the deployment of positive train control (PTC) systems. The grants, which were awarded to 11 projec...
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The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) condemns the federal government shutdown, NATCA President Paul Rinaldi said. “This shutdown, whether it lasts one hour, one day, one week...
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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) recently applauded U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for asserting the federal government’s role in regulating interstate commerce by granting a peti...
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently authorized self-driving car startup Zoox to become the state’s first company to provide autonomous-vehicle (AV) passenger service to the pu...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking candidates to serve on its Drone Advisory Committee (DAC), according to an official notice published earlier this month in the Federal Register. ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded more than $100,000 in grant funding last week to five states and one territory through the Governors Highway Safety Association to su...
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The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is urging Congress to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill in 2019. Earlier this month, AEM launched a $100,000 digital marketing campaign that ran...
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A coalition of nine members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) has announced a plan to design a new regional low-carbon transportation policy, which would cap and reduce carbon emissio...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded $205 million in supplemental funding for infrastructure grants to 37 small airports in 34 states, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elai...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) should extend the same pro-innovation regulatory approach to private freight railroads that is afforded to highway vehicles, the Association of American R...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced Tuesday that it is seeking public comment on the use and integration of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications technologies in transportatio...
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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) on Dec. 14 approved the Innovative Clean Transit regulation, a statewide goal to gradually transition public transit agencies to 100 percent zero-emission bus...
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A recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined options for reducing the federal deficit that included eliminating both the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and federal funding f...
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U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) sent a letter on Dec. 14 to Amtrak President and CEO Richard H. Anderson urging him to reconsider the closure of a Riverside reservation cal...
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A bipartisan group of 35 U.S. senators recently sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Daniel K. Ewells urging the agency to implement a provision in the FAA Reaut...
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The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) recently announced it supports the findings of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) report. The report, entitled Renewing th...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently launched Turbulence Aware, a resource that collects and shares turbulence data generated by participating airlines in real time. The res...
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An estimated 45.7 million Americans will fly on U.S. airlines over the 18-day winter holiday travel period, according to Airlines for America (A4A), a 5.2 percent increase from 2017. Airlines will ...
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Delta announced this week that it has updated its service and support animal policy, which will officially go into effect Dec. 18. The change bans service and support animals under four months from...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently awarded $1.5 billion in Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation grants to 91 projects in 49 states and the Di...
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