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Onboard Statistics, 1st Quarter FY 2016

This spreadsheet provides onboard statistics for the first quarter of FY 2016. Demographics are particularly useful to managers in the workforce planning process.  These data are also used by Congressional staffers and others who have an interest in the size and makeup of the federal...

DOT Onboard Demographics, December FY2016

This spreadsheet provides onboard statistics for December, FY 2016. Demographics are particularly useful to managers in the workforce planning process.  These data are also used by Congressional staffers and others who have an interest in the size and makeup of the federal workforce, and by...

The FAST Act: Accelerating Project Delivery

The FAST Act includes a number of changes to Federal law intended to streamline the environmental review process for many transportation projects across the Federal Government. 

Specifically, the FAST Act:

Extends the environmental review process that applies to highways and public...

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...