1st Quarter 2015 Airline Financial Data

EPA, DOT Propose Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are jointly proposing standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that would improve fuel efficiency and cut carbon pollution to reduce...

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,...

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...

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...

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