GAO Month in Review – October 2008

Here are the latest US Government Accountability Office (US GAO) reports about transportation, published in October 2008.

Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT’s Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends. GAO-09-56, October 3, 2008 (100 pages).
http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/details.php?rptno=GAO-09-56
Responses to Questions for the Record; September 2008 Hearing on the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status and Issues. [...]

In brief: From Veolia to Keolis, Bordeaux transit switches its operator

Greater Bordeaux (Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux, CUB) in southwest France will change its public transport operator. Present operator Veolia Transport will be replaced, following a decision of the CUB’s council, by its main opponent in France Keolis.
Final decision should be taken on November 28, 2008 for a contract worth €750 million, the largest public service [...]

Five Questions To: Ignacio Barron de Angoiti (2/2)

Transport Expertise hereby starts a series of specialists interviews with Mr. Ignacio Barron de Angoiti, High Speed Director, International Union of Railways (UIC) discussing the issue of “HSR in Northern America… where and when?”
Q3: Transport-Expertise.org
We presently living in a period of world financial crisis, and California State has a very high debt level. However, voters will decide fate [...]