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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...
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...
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...
March 2015 U.S. Airline Traffic Data
FMCSA Adopts Procedures Enhancing Safeguards for Voluntarily Submitted Confidential Business Information. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has established procedures to further protect from public disclosure certain confidential commercial or financial information...
WASHINGTON – The nation’s largest airlines posted an on-time arrival rate of 81.8 percent in April, up from both the 79.6 percent on-time rate in April 2014 and the 78.7 percent mark in March 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report...
April 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)
WASHINGTON – The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a safety advisory recommending actions that passenger railroads take to prevent trains from speeding. The advisory is the latest in a series of steps FRA has taken to keep passenger railroads safe for the...
Expert panel to help implement improvements identified in ‘Path Forward’ report; internal groups to tackle safety risks
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today released two internal reports from the Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)...
DOT Raises Maximum Denied Boarding Compensation, Liability Limit for Domestic Airline Baggage. The U.S. Department of Transportation has raised the limits on compensation to “bumped” passengers and settlements on domestic baggage claims, effective August 25, 2015. The limit on...