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Wildlife Crossings Pros and Cons In 2015, the Washington State Department of Transportation began construction on a series of improvement to I-90, a key interstate that connects eastern and western Washington. The project includes many measures to improve traveler safety and efficiency such as avalanche bridges, expanded lanes, straightened curves, and replacement bridges (WSDOT-I-90-Snoqualmie Pass East, 2016). However, in addition to those changes, they are also adding controversial wildlife crossing

The United States transportation system encompass numerous “interconnected modes of transportation, including aviation, freight and passenger rail, highway, public transit, and pipelines and moves billions of passengers and millions of tons of goods every annually” (Government Accountability Office, 2014). The Transportation Systems Sector consists of seven key subsectors, or modes: Aviation, Highway Infrastructure and Motor Carrier, Maritime Transportation System, Mass Transit and Passenger Rail

According to Aaron Smith of CNN, “The Transportation Security Administration said it discovered 3,391 guns in carry-ons at checkpoints in 2016, a 28% increase from the year before. That works out to about nine every day.” (Smith 1). As painful as it may be to go through the seemingly never-ending lines at the airport security checkpoints, the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) is trying their best to stop ALL weapons and unsafe items from potentially traveling into planes, whether on people

originated more than 400,000 carloads of crude oil, or about 800,000 barrels per day, which represents a 42-fold increase from 2008. This trend is expected to continue as domestic production of shale oil grows, since rail offers a convenient method of transportation to refineries from these newer production sites that are not well served by existing pipeline infrastructure. Accompanying this growth is an increasing number of incidents and amount of property damage, setting records the past three years. Many

Where does the Transportation Security Administration obtain its authority to function as an agency? The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was established in the wake of 9/11, this was going to facilitate a much stronger and affective security for our nation’s transportation system, whereas safeguarding the freedom of movement for the public and commerce to move freely without the fear of terroristic acts upon American soil and around the world. This agency was created as part of the

The security of rail transportation in the United States Rail Security falls into two categories, namely, passenger rail and freight rail. Passenger rail together with the mass transit is among the transportation subsector networks that provide numerous means of transportation from access points to end destinations connecting to other modes of transportation (Department of Homeland Security, 2007). While Freight railroads are key element of the nation’s transportation system that comprises of over

The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) is a monumental transportation policy that has begun to outline transportation policies and regulations while influencing new infrastructure in the United States. According to the Department of Transportation (1998), TEA-21 is a “landmark” act “improving safety, protecting public health and the environment, and creative opportunity for all Americans.” Such policies and regulations are important in order to maintain the economy while protecting

Abstract: The report below is a decision support paper for the Transportation Service Administration directorate, which is a directorate under the department of homeland security. The main purpose of this directorate is to ensure the safety of the United States’ transport infrastructure. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the objectives of the TSA and determine whether they are in alignment with the objectives of the department of homeland security. This ensures that the directorate works

The global air transport industry is one of the largest industries beating out the pharmaceuticals industry, textiles or automotive industries and the air transport industry is around half as big as the global chemicals and food and beverage industry. If we was to label air transport as a country, it would rank as 21st in the world, equal to Switzerland and doubling Chile or Singapore. There are 13.4 million indirect jobs in industries supplying the tourism industry are supported by visitors that

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is third largest Executive Department of the Federal Government charged with protecting the security of American homeland. Its primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reducing vulnerability to terrorism and minimizing the damage from potential attacks and natural disasters. The DHS was created by President G.W. Bush in the aftermath of terrorist attacks on America in 2001. It is relatively new agency that continues to evolve