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04.24.2017 - First 100 Days Listening Tour

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao

First 100 Days Listening Tour

Vehicle Research and Testing Center and

Transportation Research Center, East...

Flight Cancellations Down From Previous Year, January 2017

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today released its April 2017 Air Travel Consumer Report, compiling air carrier data for the month of February 2017.  The April report contains denied boarding (oversales) data for the October-December 2016 quarter, as airlines report...

News Digest

FMCSA to Hold Public Listening Session on Highly Automated Commercial Vehicles:  The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced it will hold a public listening session to solicit information on issues relating to the design,...

04.13.2017 - I-85 Atlanta First Responders Event

Remarks Prepared for Delivery byU.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. ChaoAtlanta First Responders EventsThe White HouseThursday, April 13, 2017

I want to commend the heroic first responders from Atlanta, who rushed to the scene of the devastating I-85 bridge fire and collapse on March 30th...