The top Republican authorizer on highways and transit policy in the U.S. House pledged to work alongside Democrats in crafting a long-term measure that would be designed to maintain and modernize the country’s infrastructure system.

A long-term infrastructure funding measure and increased oversight of the Trump administration will be priorities the new Democratic leadership in the U.S. House intends to pursue during the next two years, the incoming chairman of the transportation panel told reporters Nov. 7.

The leadership of the surface transportation panel in the U.S. Senate and other senior freight policymakers were among candidates cruising to victory Nov. 6 in the first midterm elections of President Donald Trump’s tenure.

Washington’s Port of Everett was awarded a $5.9 million loan from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau to assist with ongoing rail upgrades at the facility, Secretary Elaine Chao announced.

Mary Peters, the country’s secretary of transportation during the second half of the George W. Bush administration, will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington in January.

California’s meal-and-rest-break requirements hinder interstate commerce and cause inefficiency industrywide, the American Moving & Storage Association emphasized in a show of support for American Trucking Associations’ petition to federal trucking regulators.

Transportation policy is rarely discussed in the national political arena this fall, but some candidates with seats on key freight committees are in high-profile contests.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has directed the Illinois Department of Transportation to establish the “Autonomous Illinois” initiative with the goal of providing a venue to research and test emerging safety technologies.

This November, if New Jersey voters elect Republican political novice Bob Hugin to the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump’s chances of advancing an infrastructure funding agenda through Congress next year could improve.