The 2016 National Press Club Journalism Contest also awarded the Consumer Journalism, newspapers, award to the Associated Press for its stories about the fishing industry in Southeast Asia’s use of slave laborers.
Columbus plans to deploy three electric self-driving shuttles to link a new bus rapid transit center to a retail district and use data analytics to improve health care access in a neighborhood where the infant mortality rate quadruples the national average.
A source briefed the Associated Press, saying the money would go mainly to compensate 482,000 owners.
"This proposed rule is a textbook example of unnecessary regulation, and, if implemented, would have a chilling effect on the development of new technologies that could make the world's safest transportation network even safer. While the Department of Transportation is throwing its full support behind the development of autonomous vehicles as a way to improve safety on our roadways, it is doing the opposite with our railroads," said Edward R. Hamberger, the Association of American Railroads' president and CEO.
The Federal Transit Administration opened what it calls a national online dialogue this week about assaults on transit workers and announced it will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that establishes rail and bus safety standards protecting rail and bus operators from the risk of assault. The online dialogue began June 13 and continues until July 25.
An investigation led to a declaration of imminent hazard to public safety by the agency.
The agency alleges Amazon did not properly package and mark the package, given the contents.
The comment period had been set to end June 8 on the FMCSA and FRA notice requesting information about the evaluation of safety-sensitive personnel for moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea.
The July 12-14 course will give students an overview of photographic procedures and techniques focused on documenting transportation accident investigations in photos.
NFI Interactive Logistics has been ordered to reinstate the employee and pay a total of $276,000, DOL announced.
The collision of a 623-foot long bulk carrier with a 600-foot tanker caused about 88,200 gallons of methyl tert-butyl ether to spill into the Houston Ship Channel on March 9, 2015.
DOT has received 585 Applications for the 2016 TIGER Program.
DOT plans to award up to $40 million, subject to future appropriations, to a winning city after their mayors make their "final pitch" on June 9 in the Smart City Challenge.
"We cannot control the weather, but we certainly can plan for it when we receive reports about conditions experienced by others along our intended route," said NTSB Member Robert Sumwalt, the forum's presiding board member.
"Using a seat belt is one of the safest, easiest, and smartest choices drivers and passengers can make before starting out on any road trip," said FMCSA Acting Administrator Scott Darling. "This rule further protects large truck occupants and will undoubtedly save more lives."
The advisory circular does not create new requirements, but instead describes how they apply to extraction at federally obligated airports.
Waves as high as 60 feet have buffeted one of the search ships, measuring almost from the ship's waterline to the top of its mast, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which now expects to complete the examination of the expanded search area in July or August.
Little "ooops!" add up to big future problems.
The ripple effects of the 2016 proposed rule have yet to be determined.
Eight manufacturers were affected.