If gasoline surges to $4 a gallon, motorists will change their behavior. The evidence is in the latest numbers from the U.S. Transportation Department, which reports American motorists put 100 billion fewer miles on their vehicles from November 2007 to October 2008. The timeline coincides with the period ...

The Democratic leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Com- mittee sent a public letter to Transpor- tation Secretary Mary Peters expressing concern about the impact recent financial troubles will have on public-private part- nerships (PPPs) and innovative financ- ing involving transportation. The letter, signed by full committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-MN) and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Peter DeFazio ...

Federal aviation authorities are cutting the number of hourly flights at LaGuardia Airport as they try to address the worst major airport delays in the country. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced Monday that the government will lower the cap on take-offs and landings at LaGuardia from 75 ...

Americans reduced driving by some 3.5 percent in October compared with a year ago despite easing fuel prices, the US government said Friday. In its monthly report on traffic volume trends, the Transportation Department also said that Americans cut driving by some 160 billion kilometers (100 billion miles) between November 2007 and October 2008 than the same period a ...