Rental Spaces, Better Data Could Ease Parking Crunch
Finding a secure place to park or drop a trailer has become an all-too-common challenge for truck drivers, but some carriers have found a novel way to help ease that problem — renting parking spaces through third-party firms.
January 16, 2017Anthony Foxx Touts DOT Accomplishments, Unveils Final Transport Road Map
WASHINGTON — Outgoing Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx emphasized the importance of freight movement during a final address to the transportation community Jan. 9.
January 16, 2017Wisconsin Releases First State Freight Plan
Prompted in part by the FAST Act becoming law 13 months ago, Wisconsin has released its first freight plan, one that emphasizes the state’s multimodal elements.
January 13, 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, 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.
January 9, 2017Transportation Agency Officials, Experts Tout Importance of Performance Management
WASHINGTON — Performance management, long a staple of the private sector, is increasingly common in the world of transportation agencies. That reality, which was jump-started by MAP 21 becoming law in 2012, was applauded by officials from those agencies as well as other experts at a Transportation Research Board session on Jan. 8.
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