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.
Authored by Daniel Fagnant, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, and Kara M. Kockelman, an engineering...
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February 26, 2015 - Yesterday, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Aviation held a roundtable policy discussion...
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June 18, 2015 - House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced his panel will move legislation separating federal air traffic...
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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.