Current News
- Talking Freight Seminar, July 15, 2009 - Event: Credit Crunch and Impacts on Freight Transportation - The session will focus on how the current, tight credit market is impacting freight carrier operations and freight real estate development. Hear what bearing the short and long-term impacts of the credit crunch are having on freight transportation.
- Freight Story 2008 - An updated overview of challenges facing the freight transportation system and responses to those challenges by freight stakeholders, is now available on the web and as a print publication from FHWA's Office of Freight Management and Operations. The report provides an national summary of freight movement and where concentrations of freight volumes place pressures on the on the U.S. transportation system. Economic costs to carriers, shippers, and the overall economy are examined, and efforts by the public and private sectors to improve freight transportation and mitigate the safety and environmental effects of freight movement are highlighted. (Publication Number: FHWA-HOP-08-051)
- Podcasts Now Available for Talking Freight Seminars - FHWA is now making podcasts available for the monthly Talking Freight seminars. MP3 audio files will be available for the seminars within two weeks following each seminar. This is meant to allow freight practitioners to listen to the seminars whenever and wherever you choose - on your way to and from work, at the gym, etc. The podcast of the May 21 seminar, as well as more information about the seminar series, is available through the link below (select the link under the Past Seminars section of the page to get to the podcast files).
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