Former Secretary Mineta Receives Medal for Lifetime Achievement From TRB
Norman Mineta, the country’s secretary of transportation during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a former chairman of the transportation committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, received the lifetime achievement award at the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington.
January 13, 2017Drones, 3-D Printing to Speed Change in Freight Transportation
WASHINGTON — While freight transportation has undergone enormous change over the past quarter-century, even more is coming and very quickly, driven by demanding customers and an amazing array of technology that might actually allow carriers to satisfy shippers.
January 11, 2017ATA’s Chris Spear Named to USDOT Committee on Automation
Chris Spear, President of American Trucking Associations, is one of 25 members of a U.S. Department of Transportation advisory committee on automation that was announced Jan. 11.
January 11, 2017TRB Thinkers See Technology Transforming Transportation
WASHINGTON — A group of transportation thinkers discussed transformational technologies at a Transportation Research Board panel on Jan. 10.
January 11, 2017What Keeps State DOT Leaders Awake at Night
WASHINGTON — Delaware’s Jennifer Cohan, Louisiana’s Shawn Wilson, Pennsylvania’s Leslie Richards, Tennessee’s John Schroer, and Utah’s Carlos Braceras convened for a Transportation Research Board panel Jan. 10 to discuss what keeps state DOT leaders awake at night.
January 11, 2017Female State DOT Leaders Discuss Common Experiences
WASHINGTON — Four of the six women who run state departments of transportation and two who used to do so took part in the first of two Transportation Research Board roundtables on leadership on Jan. 10.
January 11, 2017FMCSA Officials Call for More Traffic Enforcement, Prevention as Truck and Bus Fatalities Rise
WASHINGTON — A top Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official issued a “call to action” citing preliminary statistics showing that fatalities in crashes involving large trucks and buses increased 7%-8% in 2016.
January 10, 2017Autonomous Trucks Hold Promise, But Sensible Regulation Is Needed, ATA’s Spear Tells TRB
WASHINGTON — Autonomous truck technology holds the potential to enhance safety, efficiency and productivity in the trucking industry, but its successful deployment hinges on regulations that help rather than hinder it, said Chris Spear, president of the American Trucking Associations.
January 10, 2017Foxx Praises USDOT, Warns About Transportation’s Future as He Says Goodbye
WASHINGTON — In his final address to the transportation community Jan. 9, outgoing U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx emphasized the importance of freight movement.
January 9, 2017Experts Say Lack of Public Understanding Complicates Urban Freight Movement
WASHINGTON — The disconnect between the government agencies that regulate freight and the companies that move it in ever-increasing volumes throughout the United States was a focus of a Transportation Research Board session on Jan. 9.
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