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As negotiations continue between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is still monitoring a possible work disruption affecting Canada Post, noted a USPS customer alert issued on July 11.

The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, brings over $140 million in public-private investment from leading universities and manufacturers to develop smart sensors for use in advanced manufacturing.

In his final year, Anthony Foxx wants to tear down infrastructure that isolates communities and overhaul the way federal transportation funding is distributed to states and cities in his final year.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, which represents tens of thousands of truckers, is mounting a legal challenge to a new federal requirement for drivers to electronically log their hours behind the wheel.

To get a better sense of some of the FAST Act's highlights, Logistics Management's Jeff Berman recently caught up with James H. Burnley, a partner at Washington, D.C.-based law firm Venable LLP and former Secretary of Transportation under the late President Ronald Reagan.

Congress ended weeks of contentious negotiation Tuesday, agreeing to a five-year $281 billion transportation bill that will boost spending on roads and transit systems by billions each year.

Large food companies with complex production chains have ingredients from farms and ranches all across the globe and their products processed in numerous plants; which leaves consumers with no idea where their food comes from.

While demand for transportation workers will vary by region, subsector, and occupation, there will be a large number of job openings for high-skill and middle-skill workers across the transportation industry.

UAS must be integrated into the NAS without reducing existing capacity, decreasing safety, negatively impacting current operators, or increasing the risk to airspace users or persons and property on the ground any more than the integration of comparable new and novel technologies.

In an effort to gain momentum before the Paris climate talks this December, the Obama Administration has rallied some of the largest companies in the nation to commit billions of dollars to slash their environmental footprints to help combat climate change.

Congestion is a serious challenge to America’s continuing economic growth and competitive position in the world economy.

House and Senate transportation leaders said Sunday that they have finalized details of a $15 billion transportation revenue package that includes an incremental increase in the gas tax and are optimistic lawmakers will approve a package by Tuesday.

This publication, which also previews the possibilities of the future, is being shared with all members of Congress and with other key stakeholders around the country to help them better understand why expanded investment in all modes of transportation is critical to Building a Better America!

A new white paper from the Main Street Partnership offers a road map and recommendations for Republicans and Democrats to work together to tackle our country’s most pressing transportation and infrastructure needs.

Across the political spectrum, there is general agreement that America’s infrastructure needs significant improvement, and by some measures, our current national investment in infrastructure is at a seventy-year low, and this investment deficit is imposing serious costs on our economy and global competitiveness.

Signed into law by President Obama in 2011, the FSMA enables the FDA to better protect public health by strengthening the food safety system.

Hillary Clinton on Sunday finally responded to those who have said she has dodged the hot-button issue of international trade - Bernie Sanders is calling Hillary’s TPP Stance a Cop-Out.

The U.S. House of Representatives has dealt a stunning blow to President Barack Obama’s free-trade agenda with a large number of Democrats defied their fellow Democratic president to defeat a critical part of a legislative package that would have provided assistance to American workers who might lose their jobs if a major Asia-Pacific trade agreement is forged.

The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation found that currently available forward collision avoidance technologies for passenger and commercial vehicles still show clear benefits that could reduce rear-end crash fatalities.

Seventeen lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in Congress have introduced legislation to provide federal transportation funding for the long-term.