ISSUE / Week of November 14, 2016
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Federal Governance,GovernanceNovember 16,2016 |Trump Transition Underway – What Will the Transportation and Infrastructure Agenda Be?
November 16, 2016 The surprise election of Donald J. Trump to become the 45th President of the United States has thrown the transportation stakeholder community into an uproar, with no one knowing... -
November 16, 2016 Focusing on the “first 100 days” of a new Presidency is an artificial deadline. The real window for a productive first term of a new Administration is the first six to seven...
Election Results Mean A Less Productive Lame Duck Session
November 16, 2016 | Jeff DavisNovember 16, 2016 The election of Donald Trump to replace Barack Obama as President has thrown the planned post-election “lame duck” session of Congress that began this week into an...
Legislators Organize for the Upcoming Congress
November 16, 2016 | Jeff DavisNovember 16, 2016 Representatives and Senators returned to Washington D.C. this week to hold their first round of organizational meetings to start organizing for the upcoming 115th...
GAO Analyses Expert and Stakeholder Views on ATC Reform
November 16, 2016 | Rui NeivaNovember 16, 2016 On the same day that the USDOT’s Inspector General released a report about air traffic control (ATC) modernization, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new...
Inspector General Slams FAA Deployment of NextGen
November 16, 2016 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONNovember 16, 2016 In a new study published on November 15, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation (IG) reported on NextGen deployment. NextGen is the Federal Aviation...
FHWA Updates Estimates on FY 2020 FAST Act Highway Rescission
November 16, 2016 | Jeff DavisNovember 16, 2016 In an attempt to make the budget totals of the legislation balance, section 1438 of the FAST Act of 2015 orders that, on July 1, 2020, $7.569 billion in unobligated balances of...
A Transportation Revolution Can’t Run on Autopilot
November 16, 2016 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION(This article was first published in The Source, LA Metro's News and Views Blog) Why tech visionaries need to have feet planted firmly on the ground During the first decade of the Information...