Fed agency urged bus safety improvements
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The federal agency investigating last week's deadly crash of a bus carrying a college baseball team has for years sought safety improvements that could have reduced the number of injuries from the accident.
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A bus explosion that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita was due in part to flawed government oversight of bus companies, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Wednesday.
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NASA officials said Thursday that they had made significant progress in making shuttles safer and changing the way they do business.
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The U.S. government has adopted a formal policy allowing people with disabilities to use Segway Personal Transporters inside federal buildings, at speeds of up to 3MPH.
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A preliminary investigation into last week's fatal school bus crash indicates that a "faulty steering mechanism" on a passing car caused the accident, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- In an effort to prevent child deaths, the government is requiring automakers to install safer switches on power windows by 2008.
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The National Transportation Safety Board today urged the federal and state governments to forbid motor coach and school bus drivers from using cell phones while driving, except in emergencies.
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The Federal Aviation Administration must improve oversight of air carriers and passengers who bring hazardous materials onto planes, according to a report
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A panel on traffic mitigation is considering a list of proposals that includes a simple increase in bridge tolls, two versions of congestion pricing, and a rationing plan that limits how many times a particular car could enter the city in a given week.
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A bus explosion that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita exposed flaws in government oversight of motor carrier companies, safety investigators said Wednesday.
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States are losing millions of dollars and thousands of jobs because Congress failed to pass a federal highway bill last year, state transportation officials told Congress on Tuesday. They urged lawmakers to make the spending bill one of the first orders of business.
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SAN DIEGO -- John Phillips peered down at the computer screen. Something didn't look quite right. It was 9:11 a.m. on the West Coast, or just past noon in the East, and all the bus drivers were supposed to be on break. The map of the District of Columbia showed hundreds of red blips representing vehicles that had been parked for more than an hour. But then there was one black dot, a lone bus, moving rapidly in the northwestern quadrant of the city.
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A state official yesterday proposed sweeping changes to the state's safe driver insurance plan that he said would slightly lower the rates of good drivers, sharply increase the rates of bad drivers, and remove surcharges from driving records faster.
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Sport utilities showed modest improvement in rear-crash protection according to a U.S. insurance industry analysis released on Tuesday, but more than half the 87 light trucks tested fell short of optimum safety and pickups fared the worst.
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A new fleet of school buses will improve safety for children in Northern Ireland, Translink says.
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The Transportation Security Administration will deploy special teams to help enhance transit system security in eight cities over the July Fourth holiday, officials said Tuesday.
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Federal programs involving food safety, transportation spending and technology security were added Wednesday to a congressional "high risk" list, meaning their inefficiencies leave them vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse.