The first goal of any transportation agency is safety. Yet almost 40,000 Americans die on the transportation system every year. New proposals for safer streets, better vehicle design, and crash avoidance technology are reshaping the narrative around safety in an effort to reverse the downward trend of transportation safety. Governments are also concerned about the security of the system. Terrorism, hacking, and international affairs can threaten the transportation systems that support the national economy.
September 10, 2015 - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has called off a markup of the surface transportation reauthorization...
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(More amendments, all of which are “limitation” amendments (“no funds in this act may be used for such-and-such”) were offered...
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July 9, 2015 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) surprised Capitol Hill yesterday by telling reporters that Highway Trust...
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Please see the amendments adopted in the Commerce Committee on June 25, summarized elsewhere in this issue, for changes to...
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Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars
The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars (September 2018) concludes that until the federal government better understands the potential national security risks of using Chinese railcars in American transit systems, a one-year appropriations ban is more appropriate than a permanent policy change.