ISSUE / Week of August 1, 2016
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FASTLANE,Federal FundingAugust 03,2016 |Competition for Federal Grants Breeds Transportation Innovation
Last month’s unveiling of the winner of the Smart Cities Challenge got a lot of attention (congrats, Columbus!) That program, run by the U.S. Department of Transportation, awarded $140 million to... -
August 3, 2016 Investing in national transportation infrastructure became a significant talking point for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the candidates have proposed improvement programs...
Distracted Driving’s New Challenge: Pokemon Go
August 03, 2016 | Greg RogersAugust 3, 2016 Last month, like every month, Tennessee’s Highway Safety Office (HSO) joined numerous agencies across the United States in urging its residents to put their phones away while...
USDOT Announces FY16 TIGER Grant Recipients
July 29, 2016 | Jeff DavisJuly 29, 2016 The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced $485 million in surface transportation grants for fiscal year 2016 for 40 projects with an estimated total cost of $1.7...
Proposed STB Rule Would Enable Reciprocal Switching
August 03, 2016 | Greg RogersAugust 3, 2016 On Wednesday, July 28, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adopt reciprocal switching regulations proposed by the National...
$197 Million in PTC Implementation Grant Funding Soon To Be Available
August 03, 2016 | Jeff DavisAugust 3, 2016 On July 29, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the availability of $197 million in grants to commuter railroads in fiscal year 2017 to implement positive train control...
A Brief History of Big Data (in Federal Transportation)
August 03, 2016 | Thomas GroganGuest op-ed by Thomas Grogan, Senior Economist, HDR, Inc. Big Data is big. Big enough to generate 3.5 billion search results each day. Big enough to process over 25 million transit trips...
STB Withdraws Delay Calculation Policy, Adopts Arbitration Rules
August 03, 2016 | Jeff DavisAugust 3, 2016 In a pair of decisions last week, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) withdrew a controversial policy issued late last year on how to calculate Amtrak delays and also issued new...