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FRA Extends Comment Period for NEC FUTURE

 

Interested parties encouraged to provide comments by new deadline

 

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced that it will extend the formal comment period for the...

2015 On Pace to Be Most Heavily Traveled Year, New Federal Data Show

U.S. Driving in November 2015 Continues Record Setting Year

WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving reached 2.88 trillion miles by the end of November, making it...

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...

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...