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The Department is responsible for promoting U.S. airline access to foreign markets and competition in international markets. It is also responsible for reducing trade barriers and facilitating the export of domestic transportation goods and services.
In conjunction with these...
The Office of Infrastructure Finance and Innovation is primarily responsible, in coordination with the Office of the Chief Economist, for providing policy direction related to the implementation of infrastructure grant programs, credit programs and regulations that impact infrastructure...
The Department of Transportation has continued to calculate the SIFL adjustment factor to aid in its evaluation of carrier pricing in the free market. The SIFL is also used by the Internal Revenue Service in imputing the value of free transportation provided on corporate aircraft.
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (ADA), Public Law 95-504, substantially amended the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, setting both deadlines and policies for the economic deregulation of interstate and overseas (domestic) air transportation. Among other things,...
The Office of International Transportation and Trade coordinates the Department’s activities related to the National Export Initiative (NEI) (http://export.gov/nei/) and staffs the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) working groups on behalf of the Department.
This program is in the HR Policy Division, M-13, in the Departmental Office of Human Resource Management. The program provides policy, guidance, leadership, planning, and consulting services for Government-wide and Department-wide survey administration.
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The Office of International Transportation and Trade provides departmental coordination on international surface and intermodal transportation and trade policies, including trade facilitation, technical assistance and cooperation programs, trade promotion and advocacy, multimodal...
Safety and freight mobility efficiency are the main drivers for considering exclusive truck lane (ETL) implementation. The underlying hypothesis is that physically separating heavy tmcks from light vehicles will improve highway safety by reducing the number of truck-related crashes. Safety...
The Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) at the United States Department of Transportation has commissioned this study to assess the cost of surface transportation congestion from a national perspective. For road travel, a number of previous reports have assessed the cost of...