U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY LAHOOD KICKS OFF ANNUAL ‘CLICK IT OR TICKET’ CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE SEAT BELT USE
New NHTSA Ads Airing Nationwide Target Seat Belt Violators.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Participates in Ribbon Cutting for Dubuque Millwork District TIGER Project
DUBUQUE, Iowa– U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood celebrated the ribbon cutting on the $137 million Historic Millwork District multimodal improvement project, a keystone in a strategy to reinvigorate the community by attracting both businesses and residents through expanded transportation...
Policy - FAAC
DOT Provides Guidance on Advertising of "Free" Airfares
The Department’s new airfare advertising rule, which took effect on Jan. 26, 2012, requires every advertised price for air fares to state the entire price to be paid by consumers. This means that all mandatory government-imposed taxes and fees as well as mandatory carrier-imposed charges must be...
USDOT Proposes Groundbreaking Rule to Prevent Rollover Crashes for Nation’s Large Trucks, Buses
New Federal Safety Standard Could Prevent More than Half of Rollovers, Help Maintain Steering Control for Large Commercial Vehicles.
DOT Issues Grants to States for Pipeline Safety Call Centers
Centers Support the National 811 "Call Before You Dig" Hotline.
DOT Selects Four Cities to Receive New Nonstop Service to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that new nonstop flights will be available to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport from four cities that, because of distance, had earlier been ineligible for nonstop service.
The U.S. Department of Transportation...Airlines Post Record First-Quarter On-Time Performance for First Three Months of 2012
Between January and March this year, the nation’s largest airlines posted their best on-time arrival rate for the first quarter of any year since the Department began collecting comparable flight delay data in 1995, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel...
U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Attends Groundbreaking of Sugar House Streetcar Project
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today joined local officials to break ground on a two-mile streetcar line that will connect South Salt Lake City to the city’s Sugar House Business District, providing new and better transportation choices and economic revitalization to an area where...
Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to Move Forward on Critical Midwest High Speed Rail Study
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that Illinois, Indiana and Michigan have agreed to move forward with a comprehensive study that will help determine ways to reduce rail congestion and let trains achieve higher speeds along the Chicago-to-Detroit high-speed rail corridor....