U.S. Department Of Transportation

In a DOT press release this week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood makes a $1.58 billion commitment to fund the New Starts program.

U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood announced this morning which high-speed rail projects would get funded out of the nearly 100 applications they received. The Northeast Corridor was again the big winner.

A reports suggests that U.S. has reached a point whereby mobility trends, socio-demographic conditions and travel behavior will result in changes to annual "vehicle miles of travel" (VMT) growth.

The urban Interstates are sometimes blamed for the same problems they were designed to solve. A new article focuses on how the urban Interstates were selected.

Secretary Mineta announces the Transportation Services Index (TSI)--an indicator of transportation's impact on the American economy.

The term "Induced Travel" is highly controversial but typically misunderstood by both highway advocates and opponents.

The average daily one-way commute to work in the United States takes slightly more than 26 minutes.

Take the US DOT's bikeability checklist and see how your community rates.

A major research study by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ranks the states and cities with the highest pedestrian fatality rates.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced an initial list of seven transportation construction projects around the country that will receive accelerated environmental review under President Bush's executive order.

The U.S. Department of Transportation releases their 2000 series of reports.