April 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data

April 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data

News Digest DOT 59-15

BTS Releases Commodity Flow Survey Microdata - The Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau released a public use microdata product from the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) on Monday. This new data product is the first microdata product available to the public from...

News Digest DOT 58-15

DOT’s Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protection to Hold Eighth Meeting on June 23.  On Tuesday, June 23, 2015, DOT’s Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protection (Committee) will hold its eighth meeting in the Media Center at DOT headquarters in Washington, DC.  The...

FTA Finds Serious Safety Lapses at WMATA, Implements NTSB Recommendation to Improve Subway Tunnel Safety

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently conducted an inspection of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) rail and bus systems that identified organizational deficiencies and operational...

FMCSA Orders Shut-down of Trucking Companies in Illinois, Georgia, as Imminent Hazards to Public Safety

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in separate actions has ordered Payson, Illinois-based Rhino Displays, USDOT No. 1474447, and Hampton, Georgia-based Prudential Carriers, Inc., USDOT No. 248188, respectively, to...

DOT Allows Delta to Keep the Seattle-Haneda Route Provided That It Operates Daily Service Year-Round

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today finalized its decision to permit Delta Air Lines to retain its authority to provide daily service between Seattle, Washington and Tokyo’s downtown Haneda Airport, but subject to conditions designed to ensure that Delta...

2015 Transportation Datapalooza

Welcome to the 2015 Transportation Datapalooza: Celebrating Data Application Innovations in Delivering a Safe and Efficient Multimodal Transportation System for Strong Economic Development.

Participants shared a broad spectrum of data collection, applications, and analytical techniques...

FTA - Ben Lockshin

New Proposed Rule Would Improve Testing the Safety, Reliability of New Transit Buses

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would improve the process for testing the safety and reliability of new transit buses funded with federal dollars.  The proposed rule would...

March 2015 U.S. Airline Traffic Data

March 2015 U.S. Airline Traffic Data