Under the agreement, the Department of Defense will release airspace off the East Coast above 24,000 feet. The added capacity is expected to ease delays during one of the busiest travel periods of the year, saving time and money for passengers and airlines while reducing fuel burn.
For example, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is changing "deficient" to "alert" when a motor carrier's score in one or more BASIC categories is above the agency's threshold for intervention.
The "Faces of Distracted Driving" series announced Nov. 16 by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood features people who have been injured or lost loved ones because of distracted driving accidents.
Among the regulations are primary seat belt laws, graduated licensing laws for young drivers, hard-core drinking driver laws, and recreational boating safety laws. New ones may be considered, according to the board.
Six years of work went into the specifications that have been sent to 38 member states, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation said Nov. 8.
The new rule seeks to prevent “widespread fatigue damage” (WFD) by requiring aircraft manufacturers and certification applicants to establish a number of flight cycles or hours a plane can operate and be free from WFD without additional inspections for fatigue.
More than anything else, shippers want visibility of a carrier's data. Many are mandating electronic onboard recorders.
The final Federal Railroad Administration rule takes effect June 1, 2011. It eliminates the current requirement that railroads decide within seven days whether a potentially reportable injury was work related.
"When people buy tickets for air travel, they have the right to know how much they will have to pay," said DOT Secretary Ray LaHood. "We will continue to take enforcement action when our price advertising rules are violated."
Several state DOTs brought home top honors from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' 2010 Annual Meeting.
In the final settlement agreement issued by FMCSA on Oct. 7, 2010, the agency cited JBS Carriers for 102 counts of falsifying drivers’ hours-of-service records and three counts of allowing drivers with a suspended, revoked, or canceled commercial driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle.
NHTSA warns drivers that adjusting to the new low-light environment can take time, and that driving while distracted puts everyone—and especially pedestrians—at greater risk of death or injury.
The purpose of this document is to specify minimum requirements, performance parameters, and essential criteria for the design of ground ambulances.
Commercial carriers would have to develop and implement an SMS, which FAA describes as "an organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls." Its proposed rule lists four essential components of an SMS.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's 2009 estimate indicates 33 percent of U.S. drivers dying in highway crashes had a 0.08 blood alcohol concentration or higher.
The pipeline involved in the failure leaked crude oil for more than ten hours before Chevron received notification of the failure from the local fire department, according to PHMSA.
The passenger rail company and two of its unions have agreed to conduct the project for five years on tracks in parts of Boston, New Haven, Long Island City, N.Y., Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
The new mayor promised to take action before he was sworn in last week. President Dmitry Medvedev says a "huge number of people" die on the city's roads "partly because of a poor traffic management system."
“In addition to cutting greenhouse gas pollution, greater fuel economy will shrink fuel costs for small businesses that depend on pick ups and heavy duty vehicles, shipping companies and cities and towns with fleets of these vehicles," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.
A state board approved a $72.3 million contract Wednesday to add Agusta Aerospace Corp. AW139s to the fleet operated by the Maryland State Police.