The nation’s freight volume will increase 2.8 percent this year, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA) Freight Transportation Forecast 2017, and 15.18 billion tons of freight will be...
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The Department of Energy's (DOE) Battery500 consortium recently awarded more than $5.7 million in funding awarded to 15 different projects related to electric-vehicle batteries. The projects were p...
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In a vote this week, legislators of the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection advanced a bill that would shake up the issues surrounding self-driving vehicles. Proponents have of...
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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) recently announced its advanced seasonally-adjusted (SA) for-hire truck tonnage index fell 4.3 percent during the month of June, equaling 138.5. The June i...
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), a group of more than 1,500 organizations, opposes the House Appropriations Committee’s Budget Resolution for fiscal year 2018 which would cut f...
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Six trade organizations recently praised U.S. Reps. Diane Black (R-TN) and Ron Kind (D-WI) for introducing the biodiesel blenders’ tax credit extension bill. The most recent credit expired nearly...
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Tesla, Inc. recently named Linda Johnson Rice, chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, and James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox, to the company’s board of directors. Rice currently ser...
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) recently refunded Highway Enhancement through Local Partnerships (H.E.L.P) bonds, saving the state $3.8 million, according to Transportation Commiss...
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The Lightweight Materials Consortium, sponsored by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) LightMAT, aims to develop lighter weight vehicles and increase fuel efficiency. LightMat is supported by the DO...
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In response to reports that the Trump Administration was open to terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an international group of automotive trade associations submitted a public...
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The Oregon State Legislature recently passed a new transportation infrastructure package that aims to address issues seen in high-crash corridors and enhance statewide initiatives, such as the Safe Ro...
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The Mississippi Transportation Commission (MTC) recently announced that it approved funding for more than 20 multimodal projects in Mississippi’s Northern Transportation District. “The projects...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $19.4 million in funding for the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), which is earmarked for 22 new cost-shared projects aimed at developing new te...
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U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) recently sent a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, expressing their dismay over the indefinite delay on states trac...
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According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) rose by 2.2 percent in May, reversing a two mont...
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) recently announced the winners of the America’s Transportation Awards. The competition recognizes departments of tr...
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U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, recently chastised the Trump Administration for suspending a portion of the Bipartisan Budget Act of...
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The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently won the 2017 ODOT/ACEC Partnering Award for Excellence in Highway Design in the Best Urban Project category for the I-270/US 33 Interchange, desig...
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The law office of Peter Ventura used data from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Highway Division to create the area’s first interactive traffic study. Each year, there are more ...
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Telematics company FleetUp recently announced it will be offering the industry’s first Voice Over HOS (VoHOS) solution integrated into its U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier...
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