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The FAST Act: Increasing Transportation Choices and Opportunities

The FAST Act includes provisions are intended to improve transportation options, redevelop communities, and expand employment opportunities --particularly for low-income individuals, minorities, and persons with disabilities. 

Specifically, the Act:

Makes transit-oriented development...

The FAST Act: Innovative Finance

The FAST Act restructures the Department’s credit and innovative finance programs.

The Act creates the National Surface Transportation and Innovative Finance Bureau, a new office intended to help streamline and improve the application process for the Department’s credit assistance...

The FAST Act: Freight Provisions

The FAST Act includes a number of provisions focused on ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable movement of freight.

Specifically, the FAST Act:

Establishes a National Multimodal Freight Policy that includes national goals to guide decision-making.Requires the Development of a National...

Historic Documents

Creating the Department of Transportation

Below, interested readers will find a trove of documents that tell the Department's origin story. From the 1965 letter written by Najeeb Halaby, administrator of the then-independent Federal Aviation Agency proposing a new Cabinet Agency...

News Digest DOT 02-16

 

BTS Releases Pocket Guide to Transportation 2016- The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has published the Pocket Guide to Transportation 2016 – a quick reference guide to significant transportation statistics. The 19th annual Pocket Guide covers data on moving people...

49 CFR Part 26 Sample Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has prepared this sample program to help recipients comply with 49 CFR Part 26, the DOT DBE rule. We published Part 26 in the Federal Register on February 2,1999, and it became effective March 4 (64 F.R. 5096). It made extensive revisions to DOT's DBE...