Issues & Modes / Freight
Senate Commerce OKs $78B Rail-Safety-Multimodal Bill
Jun 18, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee this week approved a $78 billion bill that provides the highway and motor...
Hearing Explores Larger Implications for Exporters in the Midst of an Import Boom
Jun 18, 2021 | Katie DonahueThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation held a hearing this week on the...
Hearing Explores What Happens to Exporters in an Import Boom
Jun 18, 2021 | Katie DonahueThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation held a hearing this week on the...
Biden Budget Continues Traditional OMB Approach to Corps of Engineers
May 30, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Biden Administration has requested $6.8 billion in regular appropriations for the Army Corps of Engineers' water resources program...
Senators Examine Intermodal Cargo Network Status
May 13, 2021 | Jonathan HammondIt seems a bit shocking that only a couple of months ago, intermodal cargo containers, the ships that carry them, and the im-port-ant...
Guest Op-Ed: The Current State of Public Policy for Autonomous Trucking
May 07, 2021 | Finch FultonThe US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has long advocated for the benefits autonomous vehicles can bring to the nation’s...
Port Spending Increase Under Biden Jobs Plan May Be Illusory
Apr 12, 2021 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's American Jobs Plan promises massive spending increases for all manner of public infrastructure. The White House says...
CP-KCS Merger Would Create Canada-US-Mexico Unified Railroad
Mar 25, 2021 | Jeff DavisIn what seems like the last, unfinished piece of 1990s railroad merger mania, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern announced on...
House T&I Examines Private Sector Role in Addressing Climate
Mar 19, 2021 | Brianne EbyOn March 17, the full House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing titled “The Business Case for Climate...
Biden DOT Rewrites INFRA Grant Solicitation – But Will FY21 Be the Only Year Team Biden Gets to Select Projects?
Feb 26, 2021 | Jeff DavisThe Biden Administration has released its revised version of the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the fiscal year 2021 tranche...
First T&I Hearing of 2021 Looks at COVID and Transportation Workers
Feb 05, 2021 | Hayley BurtonAmong the various ways the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the nation is the health and safety of transportation workers and passengers,...
Buttigieg Sworn In As SecDOT, While New Personnel Announced
Feb 05, 2021 | Jeff DavisPete Buttigieg was sworn in as the 19th United States Secretary of Transportation on the morning of February 3, following a successful...