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On June 3, 2019, various State Departments of Transportation, representatives from the auto industry, and users met at DOT headquarters in Washington, D.C. to describe their technology for traffic safety and congestion mitigation at a public conference.
Over the past several years, the U.S. DOT and its operating administrations have engaged in numerous activities related to connected vehicles, which generally encompass vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communications, collectively known...
On September 18, 2019, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced $60 million in Federal grant funding to the selected award recipients for the Automated Driving Systems (ADS) Demonstration Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity. (Press Release)
The 73 proposals are...
Fatal motor vehicle crashes are down by almost 2 percent after two years of large increases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that 2017 highway fatality...
Detroit Free Press:“Saying those existing standards have helped push the cost of new vehicle to an average of $35,000 or more — and that they could add as much as $2,340 to the cost of a new car — the Trump administration has argued that those standards are no longer feasible or appropriate and...
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026...
This order concerns violations by Hawaiian Airlines (Hawaiian) of the requirements of 14 CFR Part 250 with respect to providing denied boarding compensation (DBC) to passengers who were involuntarily denied boarding. This order also concerns violations by Hawaiian of the requirements...
Remarks Prepared for Delivery byU.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. ChaoAV 3.0 Summit EventDepartment of Transportation, Washington, D.C.Thursday, March 1, 2018
Thank you, Michael [Kratsios - Deputy Assistant to the President and the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer...
On March 1, 2018, U.S. DOT hosted a Public Listening Summit on Automated Vehicle Policy (Federal Register Notice). Stakeholders and the public were invited to attend a summit with senior leadership from USDOT, state and local partners, industry, academia, and safety advocates at the U....