U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the Trump administration will release "principles" of its infrastructure investment plan late this month, and that the White House Office of Management and Budget is looking for spending offsets to help make up for $200 million of direct federal funding in the plan. Chao made the remarks over several days in a television interview, a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and in a hearing before the Senate Environment and Public

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer notified Congress on Thursday that President Trump intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Lighthizer said the United States will rework the 23-year-old trade agreement to support higher-paying jobs here and grow the U.S. economy by improving trading opportunities with Canada and Mexico. “USTR will now continue consultations with Congress and American stakeholders to create an agreement that advances

Arlington, VA - Traffic congestion on the U.S. National Highway System (NHS) added over $63.4 billion in operational costs to the trucking industry in 2015, according to research released today by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). Utilizing a variety of data sources including its unique truck GPS database, ATRI calculated delay on the NHS totaling more than 996 million hours of lost productivity, which equates to 362,243 commercial truck drivers sitting i

President Trump nominated Senate staffer Adam Sullivan to be assistant secretary of transportation for government affairs, a position that would make Sullivan the U.S. Department of Transportation's chief adviser on congressional relations. That is Trump's fourth announced USDOT appointment so far that requires Senate confirmation, and the Senate has only confirmed Elaine Chao as secretary. A full Senate vote is pending on Jeffrey Rosen to be deputy secretary and the presiden