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MIAMI – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff visited Miami-Dade County officials to highlight a legislative victory that will ensure that transit passengers in the United States who...
The Office of International Transportation and Trade provides departmental coordination on international surface and intermodal transportation and trade policies, including trade facilitation, technical assistance and cooperation programs, trade promotion and advocacy, multimodal...
This is the first annual status report on activities and progress made in response to Executive Order (EO) 13274: Environmental Stewardship and Transportation Infrastructure Project Reviews (signed on September 18, 2002, by President George W. Bush). EO 13274 is designed “to promote...
Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. §1532) requires each agency to prepare a comprehensive written statement for any proposed or final rule that includes a “Federal mandate that may result in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or...
This report includes a synopsis of the history of barriers to local coordination of housing and transportation resulting from HUD and DOT statutes and regulations, a summary of efforts to date to identify barriers within each agency’s programs, and a description of efforts underway to address...
The value of travel time is a critical factor in evaluating the benefits of transportation infrastructure investment and rulemaking initiatives. Reduction of delay in passenger or freight transportation is a major purpose of investments, and rules to enhance safety sometimes include provisions...
Safety and freight mobility efficiency are the main drivers for considering exclusive truck lane (ETL) implementation. The underlying hypothesis is that physically separating heavy tmcks from light vehicles will improve highway safety by reducing the number of truck-related crashes. Safety...
The Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) at the United States Department of Transportation has commissioned this study to assess the cost of surface transportation congestion from a national perspective. For road travel, a number of previous reports have assessed the cost of...
Departmental guidance on valuing reduction of fatalities and injuries by regulations or investments was first published in the 1993 memorandum "Treatment of Value of Life and Injuries in Preparing Economic Evaluations." This guidance was revised in 2008 on the basis of later research, yielding a...
Government agencies all over the nation have implemented and evaluated new Traffic Management Techniques (TMTs) in the past decade to increase the efficiency of the existing transportation system in innovative manner with minimal costs. Some of the TMTs implemented in the past decade include...