Part of agency’s comprehensive campaign to reduce fatalities at railroad crossings
Village of Pewaukee, Wis. – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today awarded a $3 million grant to the State of Wisconsin to increase safety at 10 railroad crossings along 10 miles of...
U.S. Driving Tops 3.1 Trillion Miles In 2015, New Federal Data Show
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared California-licensed truck driver Edward Herbert Crane to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial...
WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division during 2015 were up 29.8 percent from 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
For all of last year, the Department received 20...
December 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today provided a preliminary report regarding its investigation into the Plains All American pipeline failure, which occurred on May 19, 2015, in Santa Barbara County,...
Part of agency’s comprehensive campaign to reduce fatalities at railroad crossings
BATON ROUGE, La. – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today awarded a $1.1 million grant to the State of Louisiana to increase safety at railroad crossings...
Administrator sends letter to state DOTs urging them to conduct inspections with railroads
WASHINGTON –The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today called on state departments of transportation to verify that railroad crossing warning systems...
DOT Launches Process to Award the New FlightsHAVANA – Today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin, Cuban Minister of Transportation Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez and President of the Cuban Civil Aviation...
November 2015 U.S. Airline Traffic Data