Issues & Modes / Safety & Security
Overview of Final FY 2015 USDOT Appropriations
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 – 9:05 p.m. Initial overview. The omnibus package will take the form of a House amendment to the Senate...
Congress Returns For Hectic Final Session
Dec 02, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 2, 2014 – 11:00 A.M. As Congress returns from the Thanksgiving recess to face what is supposed to be the last two weeks...
President Nominates NHTSA, STB Heads
Nov 20, 2014 | Jeff DavisNovember 20, 2014 As the USDOT nomination backlog at the White House builds, President Obama in recent days has nominated a new head...
Federal funding for highways is stagnant and the Federal Aid Highway Program (FAHP) appears to be “shrinking by default.” Transportation infrastructure is not a top 10 public polling issue. Highway conditions have improved and there is little “inside the beltway” dialogue on transportation infrastructure. Meanwhile, popular discussion of mobility is more focused on new vehicle technology than on highway infrastructure.
Oct 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY STEVE LOCKWOOD Senior Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff A New Context for the FAHP? In the absence of Congressional action,...
Improving Transportation Performance: Time to Focus on Operations
Sep 25, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONCongress has been able to accomplish very little this year, but one thing they agreed they needed to do was avoid insolvency in the...
Technology That Makes Airport Taxiing Safer Is Possible Today
Jun 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY CYRO STONE Director of Business Development for ACSS We are all aware of the extraordinary advances in air transportation safety...
Countdown to Mainstreaming of Self-Driving Vehicles
May 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY EVA LERNER-LAM President, Palisades Consulting Group, Inc. There is a lot of excitement today about the concept of so-called...
Improving Transportation = Better Quality of Life for City Dwellers
Apr 24, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY RICHARD HARRIS Solution Director, Xerox Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) refers to a wide range of services that use...
Transportation and Technological Change: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles
Apr 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThere is tremendous excitement in the transportation world about the idea of self-driving vehicles, also known as autonomous vehicles...
The Bell Tolls for User-based Funding
Mar 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONLast month was the first time in a long time that anyone with the ability to act on it has proposed a specific funding source for...
Three Ideas for Big City Departments of Transportation
Feb 24, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONThe United States is increasingly a metropolitan nation, with more of the population concentrating in urban areas. The largest of these...
2013 Transportation Weekly Archive Index
Dec 31, 2013 | Jeff Davis2013 Transportation Weekly Archive Index January 2013 January 16, 2013 issue January 21, 2013 update ...
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.
