The U.S. Department of Transportation provided $40 million in grants on January 14 to five states seeking to improve highway-railway line crossing safety. [Above photo by the FRA.] The agency said that the Federal Highway Administration is issuing those grants in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Transit Administration to commuter rail authorities […]

The Federal Transit Administration is disbursing $14 billion in federal funding allocations to continue supporting public transportation systems during the COVID-19 pandemic – money provided via $900 billion in COVID-19 emergency relief aid included in a year-end legislative package signed into law December 27. State departments of transportation received $10 billion in aid via that same measure. […]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking public comment on a draft of its revised Cybersecurity Best Practices for the Safety of Modern Vehicles published January 12 in the Federal Register – an update to its existing “best practices” document originally crafted in 2016. [Above photo by the Ford Motor Co.] “Vehicle cybersecurity has […]

The National Transportation Safety Board issued several safety recommendations on January 13 to improve first responder safety when facing electric vehicle fires involving high-voltage lithium-ion batteries. [Above graphic by the NTSB.} Those findings are contained in Safety Report 20/01, which documents the agency’s investigation of four such EV fires. In three of those cases, the lithium-ion batteries ignited […]