Driving in America has undergone its most dramatic continuous decline in history, the Department of Transportation said Friday.
Traffic fatalities nationwide are expected to decline about 10 percent this year, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said Thursday.
Americans drove 3.6 percent less in July 2008 than they did during July 2007, Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said Tuesday.
An unprecedented decline in driving will deplete the federal Highway Trust Fund by the end of September and prompted the Bush administration on Friday to ask Congress for an $8 billion emergency infusion.
Drunken driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, but the government says the number of alcohol-related fatalities among motorcycle riders climbed in half the states last year
One year after the Minnesota bridge collapse, are U.S. roads and bridges safer? Randi Kaye reports.
Mercedes Gorden remembers August 1, 2007, like it was yesterday.
Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May compared with a year earlier, according to a report Monday from the Federal Highway Administration.
A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday
The U.S. military will open up airspace for commercial air travel during the Independence Day weekend to relieve congestion, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Wednesday.
Americans drove 1.4 billion fewer highway miles in April than they did in April 2007, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.
Gas prices have fallen for the third day in a row, backing further away from recent highs, according to a daily survey released Thursday by motorist group AAA.
Even if government-enforced fuel efficiency standards don't prompt Americans to buy smaller cars, the rising gas price probably will
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is demanding that federal regulators and American Airlines explain why U.S. air travelers endured canceled flights last week
The Bush administration has proposed a new rule that will require railroads to ship hazardous materials on their safest and most secure routes, but critics immediately attacked the measure as an anemic regulation that will not result in any changes to existing routes.
The government is ordering airlines to double the compensation they must pay passengers bumped from oversold flights to as much as $800 under certain conditions.
President Bush praises Australia's work in Iraq during a news conference with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
The I-35W bridge lies broken and twisted in the Mississippi River after collapsing on August 1, 2007.
Safety advocates went to federal court Thursday asking judges to block a Transportation Department rule on work hours for truckers.
President Bush has settled on steps intended to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded
CNN's Gerri Willis helps you navigate the new rules for acquiring and renewing passports.
President Bush said Thursday that he has asked his transportation secretary to make sure that travelers delayed at airports are treated fairly.
Delta Air Lines Inc. is getting a prize nonstop gateway to China, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced Tuesday.
The bodies of a 22-month-old girl and her mother have been recovered from the rubble of the I-35W bridge collapse, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.
The search for bodies in the Mississippi River was painstakingly slow as divers navigated debris and coped with low visibility after Wednesday's deadly bridge collapse, officials said.
Divers searched the Mississippi River on Thursday for more bodies entombed in cars trapped beneath the surface. As many as 30 people remained missing
Plans to add crash prevention technology to all new passenger vehicles by 2012 could save up to 10,000 lives each year on U.S. roadways, a Department of Transportation official said Thursday.
Plans to add crash prevention technology to all new passenger vehicles by 2012 could save up to 10,000 lives each year on U.S. roadways, a Department of Transportation official said Thursday.
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