As winner of the Challenge, Columbus will receive up to $40 million from U.S. DOT and up to $10 million from Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. to carry out its plan.

The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announces $3 million in Ladders of Opportunity Initiative On-The-Job Training/Supportive Service grants in eight states. Part of ongoing federal effort to improve workforce development, including creation of the FHWA’s Center for Transportation Workforce Development.

The Federal Transit Administration is conducting a National Online Dialogue on preventing and mitigating transit worker assaults from June 13 to July 25, 2016.

U.S. Department of Transportation has approved six domestic airlines to begin scheduled flights between Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis/St. Paul and Cuba