Ten days after the Federal Railroad Administration ordered the company to take several actions to improve safety in the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak announced May 26 it will install inward-facing cameras in its Northeast Corridor locomotives.
Six new accident modules have been added. The library is available to the public and captures information learned from some of the world's most historically significant accidents.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will coordinate a remedy program.
This estimate has increased annually for the third straight year, according to the council.
The alliance aims to protect workers in the car repair industry.
Physical Oceanographic Real Time Systems were installed this week in Morgan City and Port Fourchon. They will provide real-time water level information and other data to mariners.
"PTC is the backbone of the next generation of rail safety, and we are committed to its full deployment and implementation," said Acting Federal Railroad Administrator Sarah Feinberg. "There are 166 million rides taken on LIRR and Metro-North annually. Installing PTC will further ensure the safety of employees and passengers alike."
The organization now says the state should become the first to enact a total cell phone ban.
Ten rail cars carrying crude oil ignited after the May 6 derailment near Heimdahl, N.D. Firefighters were allowing the last four burning cars to burn out later in the day.
The completion of En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) signals a major milestone, Secretary Foxx says.
The agency cited the video from two recent crashes involving buses and tractor-trailers, which did not provide needed information about those crashes.
Included is a customer loyalty program for the container segment, a first for the Panama Canal Authority.
One is a proposed standard on competencies of responders to derailments of high-hazard flammable trains carrying crude oil, ethanol, and other Class 3 products.
The agency has advised owners of these cars to fix their vehicles as soon as possible.
The council expressed concern about owners' use of the watch while driving.
EPA and the DOT agency will finalize a new set of longer-term medium- and heavy-duty truck fuel efficiency standards in 2016.
Two safety advisories list the types of information carriers and shippers must make available immediately to emergency responders and to investigators at an accident scene.
The nation has ordered the review of qualifications for all of the pilots of Airbus A320 passenger jets.
The penalty is for allegedly failing to maintain the required aircraft production quality control system.
The penalty is for allegedly operating dozens of helicopter flights when they were not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.