Issue / Freight rail
Senate Hearing Examines State and Local Infrastructure Needs
Mar 16, 2018 | Alice GrossmanMarch 16, 2018 On Tuesday, the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and...
$487 Million in TIGER Grants for FY 2017 Announced
Mar 09, 2018 | Jeff DavisMarch 9, 2018 Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the 41 recipients of $487 million in total grant funding for...
USDOT Unveils Ambitious Multimodal Automation Initiative, Automated Vehicles 3.0
Mar 09, 2018 | Greg RogersMarch 9, 2018 Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation publicly announced the next phase of its bold initiative to encourage...
House Panel Pushes Railroads, Regulators on PTC Deadline
Feb 23, 2018 | Jeff DavisFebruary 23, 2018 The House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials held an oversight hearing on February 15 to...
Amtrak Submits Ambitious $11 Billion Budget Request
Feb 22, 2018 | Jeff DavisFebruary 22, 2018 As part of the regular federal budget process, the Trump Administration on January 12 submitted a budget request...
PTC Implementation: It Could Be Worse. (In Europe, it Is.)
Feb 14, 2018 | Jeff DavisFebruary 14, 2018 Ten days ago, another fatal Amtrak accident occurred in South Carolina, and once again, the National...
Senate Commerce Discusses Emerging Threats to Surface Transportation
Feb 02, 2018 | Greg RogersJanuary 31, 2018 As a response to the rise in international terrorist attacks involving multiple surface transportation modes, a...
Bringing MPOs Into the FAST Era
Feb 02, 2018 | Alexander BondFebruary 2, 2018 Since metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) were first formed in early 1960s, their core mission has been to...
Senate Committee Examines Freight Movement Challenges
Dec 22, 2017 | Greg RogersDecember 22, 2017 On December 20, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing to review the state of freight...
Capitol Hill Events – Week of December 18, 2017
Dec 15, 2017 | Jeff DavisMonday, December 18 - House Rules - full committee hearing on H.R. 3312, systemic risk designation improvement, and H.R. 1, tax cut...
Op-Ed: How Can We Get Rail Freight Service Back to Work for the American Consumer?
Nov 15, 2017 | Herman HaksteenIn a country where both food and transportation are staples of our everyday lives, the members of the Private Railcar Food and Beverage...
GAO, in Line with Eno, Recommends More Transparency for Federal Discretionary Grants.
Nov 09, 2017 | Paul LewisNovember 9, 2017 As part of the 2015 FAST Act, the FASTLANE Discretionary Grant Program, launched in 2016 under President Obama and...