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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...

MORE Questions and Answers for the Smart City Challenge

I missed the five Information Sessions offered by webinar. Are they available online? Will there be more Information Sessions added? How to I learn about new information?

Yes, presentation slides, transcripts, and archive recordings of the Information Sessions are available online at https://www....