Smaller school buses will have to be equipped with lap-and-shoulder seat belts for the first time and larger buses will have higher seat backs under a government rule announced Wednesday. ...more

October 16, 2008

Federal officials are pushing ahead with an experiment to reduce rampant flight delays across the nation by auctioning off takeoff and landing times at New York City area airports, where most delays begin. ...more

October 10, 2008

Federal officials are pushing ahead with an experiment to reduce rampant flight delays around the nation by auctioning off takeoff and landing times at New York City-area airports, where most delays begin. ...more

October 9, 2008

The draining of the trust fund for highways, and an emergency transfer of general tax dollars into it, exemplify much of what is going wrong in Washington. ...more

September 16, 2008

Congress sent President Bush an $8 billion rescue package for the federal highway trust fund Thursday. The infusion comes as the trust fund, which relies on declining revenue from the federal gas tax, verges on going broke, threatening road and bridge projects in every state. ...more

September 12, 2008

The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. ...more

September 6, 2008

Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states. ...more

August 29, 2008

Traffic deaths in the United States declined last year, reaching the lowest level in more than a decade, the government reported Thursday. ...more

August 15, 2008

The summer vacation season began this year with Americans behind the wheel less. In all, we drove 12.2 billion fewer miles in June than a year earlier, the biggest monthly decrease in a downward trend that began in November. ...more

August 14, 2008

Attention car shoppers: The government is upgrading its crash test program to offer better information about vehicle safety. ...more

July 9, 2008