Trial begins of new intelligent multimodal travel management service in European cities
EU-funded scientists are piloting a service that will allow people to determine the best way of making journeys in cities. As well as helping individuals find the most efficient route and travel mode, the systems should cut congestion and lower the env…
University of Victoria to retrofit research ship with fuel cell hybrid system
The University of Victoria (Canada) will use a portion of $13.3 million in funding provided by the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund for ocean research projects to refit the former Coast Guard vessel Tsekoa II for ocean research in the Strait…
Hours of Service
The DOT’s proposed amendment to the 34-hour restart provision was glossed over by many at first as the possibility of cutting allowable driving hours garnered much of the attention.
The Suez chokepoint
The US Energy Information Administration recently updated its brief on world oil transit chokepoints—one of which is Egypt’s Suez Canal. The EIA defines chokepoints as narrow channels along widely used global sea routes, some so narrow that ves…
Charleston, SC
CSX Corp. officials on Thursday unveiled an updated rail plan for North Charleston that they say is good for the city and its residents, the state’s economy and even rival Norfolk Southern Corp.
FMCSA sets Feb. 17 HOS listening session
FMCSA will hold a listening session on its hours-of-service proposal Feb. 17. It will be a live web broadcast, immediately followed by agency officials taking comments and answering questions online.
Hostility toward proposed changes to truck driver hours of service…
Hostility toward proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules could come to a boil at a Feb.
Jet fuel costs hurt AirTran in – 10
AirTran Holdings Inc. AirTran Airways , the second-largest carrier at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, saw a profit decline of 41.4 percent in 2010, due mostly to higher jet fuel costs.
JUDGE RULES: Minnesota fatigue program violated Fourth Amendment
In what the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association legal team calls a “major victory,” U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank ruled the Minnesota State Patrol’s use of CVSA Level III inspections to determine fatigue violated truckers’ Fou…
Public Citizen, FMCSA agree on continued delay of HOS lawsuit
The lawsuit that sent the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration back to the drawing board on the hours-of-service regs will remain on hold until a final rule is published. The most recent filing asking the court to continue the “time out” of …