Transportation Department

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he’ll reinstate an Obama-era pilot program that aims to aid minority and disadvantaged groups by ensuring local hiring for public works construction projects

Relatives of people who died in one of the Boeing 737 Max crashes are renewing their push to replace top regulators who approved the plane.

Pete Buttigieg held his first official event as transportation secretary on Friday

The Senate has approved Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, which makes him the first openly gay person confirmed to a Cabinet post

President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, testified before the Senate Commerce committee on Thursday.

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao tweeted a letter of resignation on Thursday afternoon in response to Wednesday’s mob at the U.S. Capitol

President-elect Joe Biden officially introduced Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., as his nominee for transportation secretary. Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the transportation department

Say goodbye to emotional-support animals in airplane cabins

The Trump administration is backing away from a threat to ban all flights to the U.S. by Chinese airlines

Two people briefed on the matter say the Trump administration is banning U.S. flights to all Cuban cities but Havana in the latest move to roll back Obama-era easing of relations.

The government is telling airlines and passengers how it will enforce rules governing animals that people bring on planes. The Transportation Department said Thursday that airline employees can bar any animal they consider a safety threat. Airlines, however, can be punished if they ban an entire dog or cat breed, such as pit bulls.

Pennsylvania’s Real ID identification system is now in compliance with federal regulations, more than a year before the IDs will be needed for commercial airline passengers and those entering secured federal facilities.

The Trump administration miscalculated potential damages from train derailments when it canceled an Obama-era rule requiring the installation of more advanced brakes by railroads hauling explosive fuels, The Associated Press has found. A government analysis used by the administration to justify the cancellation omitted up to $117 million in estimated future damages that could be avoided by using electronic brakes,...

Pennsylvania will place cameras in highway construction work zones as part of a pilot program to discourage speeding and improve safety.

Federal regulators have rejected the idea of setting minimum standards for airline seats and legroom as a safety measure. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it saw no immediate safety issue that requires new regulations. It cited seven recent accidents in which passengers were able to evacuate.

Pennsylvania traffic deaths are at their lowest number since such records began to be kept in 1928.

U.S. airlines are getting better at many things except getting you to your destination on time. They are losing fewer bags. Complaints are down. And on the anniversary of a man getting dragged off a plane because a crew member needed his seat, airlines are bumping fewer passengers. That’s the upshot of a report issued by academics who analyze numbers...

President Donald Trump is donating his fourth-quarter salary in 2017 to the Transportation Department to help address the nation’s infrastructure. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is accepting the check from the president in the amount of $100,000. The donation announced Tuesday in the White House briefing room comes a day after Trump released a plan to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges and...

The railroad industry is playing down expectations that a safety technology that could have prevented recent deadly train crashes will be in operation across the United States by the end of the year. Indeed, freight and commuter rail officials speak as if there never was any plan to complete their work on the technology known as positive train control, or...