ISSUE / Week of February 20, 2017
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February 24, 2017 The House and Senate Appropriations Committees got back to work this week negotiating the eleven unfinished appropriations bills for fiscal year 2017 (which started 147 days...
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Air Traffic Control,AviationFebruary 24,2017 |New Eno Center Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to U.S. Air Traffic Control
February 24, 2017 This week, the Eno Center for Transportation released Time for Reform: Delivering Modern Air Traffic Control. The report calls for taking air traffic control out of the Federal...
Stakeholders Push Multimodal Investment
February 24, 2017 | Greg RogersFebruary 24, 2017 On February 15, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a hearing entitled Moving America: Stakeholder Perspectives on our Multimodal Transportation...
Virginia, Maryland Jurisdictions Pay Price for WMATA Woes
February 24, 2017 | Greg RogersFebruary 24, 2017 The embattled Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) once again has its back on the ropes as the federal government is withholding funding from Maryland,...
Self-Driving Cars and Hot Potatoes Have Something in Common
February 24, 2017 | Paul LewisFebruary 24, 2017 When it comes to describing automated vehicles, the exact definition is actually a sliding scale. In 2014, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) created a classification of...
USDOT Puts Bay Area Commuter Rail Project On Hold
February 24, 2017 | Jeff DavisFebruary 23, 2017 The U.S. Department of Transportation last week put a three-month delay on the execution of a deal that would commit $647 million in future Federal Transit Administration (FTA)...
VMT Hits Nominal High, Approaches All-Time Per Capita Mark
February 24, 2017 | Jeff DavisFebruary 23, 2017 The Federal Highway Administration announced this week that in calendar year 2016, the total number of miles traveled by vehicles on all U.S. roads reached another all-time high...
Traffic Fatalities Highest in a Decade
February 24, 2017 | Greg RogersFebruary 24, 2017 Traffic fatalities last year were the highest since the Great Recession in an alarming trend that shows few signs of stopping, according to a new report from the National Safety...
Capitol Hill Events – Week of February 27, 2017
February 24, 2017 | Jeff DavisWednesday, March 1 - House Appropriations - Subcommittee on Homeland Security - subcommittee hearing to get the perspective of Members of Congress on the FY18 DHS budget (part 1) - 9:30 a.m., 2008...
Eno’s Executive Level Leadership Program Kicks Off in DC This Week
February 27, 2017 | Carolyn DorfThe Eno Center for Transportation is pleased announce the class and speaker lineup for the 2017 Transit Senior Executive Program (TSE). Now in its 14th year with over 500 alumni, the TSE Program is a...