ISSUE / Week of August 29, 2016
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Federal Funding,Federal GovernanceAugust 31,2016House Field Hearing Re-Assesses California’s High Speed Rail Project
August 31, 2016 House Railroad Subcommittee chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA) decided to break up his long summer recess by holding a field hearing of his subcommittee this week in San Francisco to get... -
Federal Governance,GovernanceAugust 30,2016
50 Years Ago Today: House of Representatives Debates, Amends, Passes Department of Transportation Act
August 30, 2016 Fifty years ago today, the U.S. House of Representatives amended and passed landmark legislation creating a new Cabinet-level Department of Transportation. Eno’s Documentary...
Still Waiting for NHTSA to Take Control of Self-Driving Car Debate
August 31, 2016 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has punted the release of its long-awaited guidance for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to “ by the end of summer”...
Amtrak Secures $2.45B RRIF Loan for New Acela Trainsets
August 31, 2016 Vice President Biden announced last week that the Federal Railroad Administration will loan Amtrak $2.45 billion to purchase 28 new trainsets for Northeast Corridor Acela service...
Guest Op-Ed: Railroads, Shippers Butting Heads on Tank Car Regs
Guest op-ed by Michael Kennedy, Kennedy Law and Policy. The friction between railroads and shippers continued on August 12, when a coalition of shipper organizations submitted a Petition to the...
White House Requests CR Allow New Amtrak Budgeting
August 31, 2016 Every August, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sends the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a list of appropriations “anomalies” that need to be...
House Budget Reform Paper Addresses HTF Solvency (Obliquely)
August 31, 2016 The Congressional budget process is so badly broken these days that the chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees have had to find things to do other than write budgets....
TRB Launches Future Interstate Study
As the U.S. grapples with deteriorating infrastructure and increasingly congested metropolitan areas, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) has launched a study to provide Congress and the...
Sec. Foxx Aboard First Flight to Cuba in 55 Years
August 31, 2016 The first regularly scheduled commercial flight from the United States to Cuba in 55 years landed at the Abel Santamaria International Airport today. On Monday, Transportation...
Transportation Crossword Puzzle
August 31, 2016 This crossword puzzle is primarily based around federal transportation policy acronyms - acronyms for bills and laws, for programs and agencies, for companies, for measurements,...