California
California Democrats trying to slow the rollout of driverless trucks are facing a powerful opponent…
San Francisco officials are asking a state regulator to change course and halt driverless car expansion, intensifying a battle over robotaxis in America’s tech hub…
Zero-emission vehicles comprised a quarter of the cars sold in California between April and June of this year, marking the first time the state has crossed that threshold, according to data published Wednesday, 8/2, by the California Energy Commission…
The State of California will be investing more than $750 million in locations where jobs are plentiful, but housing and green transportation is not…
The California High-Speed Rail took another important step toward becoming reality after the governing body’s board of directors began the process of obtaining possible vendors for the state’s most ambitious transit project in history…
California’s transportation infrastructure is no longer considered “high-risk,” 16 years after it was added to an inauspicious list by the California State Auditor…
Long Beach aims to launch an e-bike lending program to provide residents with up to 40 bikes—in one of the latest efforts in California to increase accessibility with green transportation…
Congress
The first [mini] bus is here, Senate appropriators announced Wednesday, 9/6, with just 23 days left until government funding runs out…
President and Administration
On Tuesday, 8/8, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced that it is accepting applications for the second year of its Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program…
On Monday, 8/7, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the availability of approximately $13.4 million in competitive grant funds through the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning…
The Biden administration announced more than $15 billion in new funding opportunities to help spur domestic battery manufacturing and ensure U.S. auto workers are taking part in the transition to electric vehicles amid continued pressure from organized labor…
On Wednesday, 8/30, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow a waiver from some REAL ID rules in order to accept mobile driver’s licenses in the future…
President Biden dipped a toe into the contract talks between automakers and the UAW on Monday, 8/14, reaffirming his support for electric vehicle jobs as a path to the middle class while urging the companies to address the union's concerns over the transition…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has launched the Project Delivery Center of Excellence to help recipients of federal infrastructure funds deliver projects more efficiently and effectively, from concept to completion…
On Monday, 7/31, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $102.3 million in funding to 17 transit agencies, cities, and planning councils in eight states and territories to help recover from recent natural disasters…
On Tuesday, 8/22, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced $8.8 million in grants for 10 projects in eight States and the District of Columbia to encourage the use of tools that can improve safety on bridges and in work zones…
Following an announcement of a private investment plan for 30,000 new electric vehicle chargers across the United States, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said government investment has paved the way for private companies to produce more electric cars…
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is requiring transit agencies across the U.S. to adhere to a new federal data reporting standard that will help the agency stay on top of current trends and evolve in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Expanding broadband access is just one of the areas in which state and industry officials are scrambling to find workers as $550 billion in new federal infrastructure funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was passed in 2021, begins to come their way…
A training program operated by the National League of Cities (NLC) helps small cities apply directly for federal infrastructure funding. Participating cities have won $428 million since last summer…
On Wednesday, 8/9, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S.DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), launched the Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard (“EMS HeatTracker”)…
