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U.S. Driving Nears 1 Trillion Miles In First Four Months of 2015

Nation’s Driving Increases for 14th Month in a Row

WASHINGTON – New estimates released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that Americans drove 987.8 billion miles for the first four months of the year, topping...

News Digest DOT 60-15

FAA and the European Union Plan to Extend and Expand Cooperative Work Toward Seamless Air Traffic Services for Aircraft Flying Between the U.S. and Europe.  FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and the European Commission’s Director General for Mobility and Transport, Mr. Joao Aguiar Machado,...

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...