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Bureau of Transportation StatisticsRolf Schmitt is the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. He returned to the Bureau in 2012 after 12 years in the freight and operations offices of the Federal Highway Administration. He helped establish BTS in 1992, and served...
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Transforming the future of transportation for the public good
Dorval Ronald Carter, Jr. is currently the US Department of Transportation Acting Chief of Staff. He serves as a senior adviser to Secretary Anthony Foxx. Dorval helps to manage a Department with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget that oversees air,...
March 2015 Air Travel Consumer Report
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced today the publication of a Final Rule clarifying that public transportation providers are required to make reasonable modifications to their polices, practices and procedures to avoid discrimination and ensure programs and services are...
Daylight Saving Time to Begin Sunday, March 8 for Most Americans. Most of the nation will return to daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, 2015, when clocks will be turned ahead one hour, providing an additional hour of daylight in the evening. Under law, daylight saving...
Prequalification system to improve contractor performance
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced approval for the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) to use an innovative contracting approach on...