Air Traffic Control,Aviation Safety,Aviation Workforce

Frustration on Progress, Concern About Noise are Key Topics at House NextGen ATC Roundtable

May 20,2021 The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation held a virtual roundtable this week on air traffic control (ATC) modernization efforts. “Final Approach: An Update on ATC...

Aviation,Transportation Technology

Environmental Sustainability and Equitable Access Key Points in Hearing on Future Aviation Technologies

April 30,2021 The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing this week on recent advances in aerospace technologies. Unlike recent hearings, “The Leading Edge: Innovation in...

Accessibility,ADA,Data,Equity,Public transit,TNCs,Transit Technology

Eno Releases New Mobility on Demand Reports with Data Insights and Recommendations

April 15,2021 Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, public transit in the United States was going through a very dynamic period. The FTA’s MOD Sandbox Demonstration Program came along at the right time in order...

Rail

Rail Safety, Workforce, and GHG Issues Set Stage for Surface Transportation Reauthorization

March 12,2021 Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), the brand-new chairman of the House Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee, kicked off a recent hearing on the railroad system by remaking how the...

Airports,Aviation,Aviation Workforce,Federal Funding

An Update on the Precarious State of the Aviation Industry

March 05,2021 COVID-19 has landed the aviation industry in the largest crisis in its history. With the pandemic still ongoing and passengers levels still significantly down, the Aviation Subcommittee of the House...

Automated Vehicles,Transit Technology

Research on Low Speed Automated Vehicles Demonstrates Their Limitations and Potential

January 29,2021 During the final week of the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting, the Transit Cooperative Research Program released “Low-Speed Automated Vehicles (LSAVs) in Public Transportation.”...

Federal Governance,USDOT

10 Transportation Priorities for the Biden Administration

December 22,2020 This week’s announcement of Mayor Pete Buttigieg ends rampant speculation about who might fill that top spot. Buttigieg will bring valuable experience and background to the agency: of the 2020...

Aircraft,Aviation Safety

Year-End Funding Bill Creates New Requirements for Aircraft Certification

December 22,2020 As part of the massive omnibus funding bill passed by Congress yesterday, which contains the second round of COVID relief money, Congress also passed significant legislation reforming and enhancing...

Bridges

Op-Ed: The Infrastructure Disaster Nobody is Talking About

December 11,2020 Perhaps we are still distracted by the election. Perhaps commuting patterns have changed so much that it is not as important. But unless you live in or around Cincinnati, you probably have not been...

Project Delivery,Transit

Eno Releases First Iteration of Transit Construction Cost Database

December 11,2020 A growing cadre of researchers, advocates, and experts are asking: why does it cost so much to build infrastructure, particularly public transit, in the United States? Last year, Eno kicked off a...