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The Vermont senator blasted Southwest's "unacceptable" meltdown and demanded the Transportation Department step in

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced it will investigate Southwest Airlines’ onslaught of cancellations that stranded thousands of travelers and their luggage at airports and wreaked havoc on holiday plans.

The Transportation Department announced that it will investigate Southwest Airlines' onslaught of cancellations Monday and Tuesday.

Frontier Airlines and four foreign carriers are paying more than $600 million in refunds to consumers whose flights were canceled or significantly delayed since the start of the pandemic

WASHINGTON — As electric vehicles appear more and more to be the future of transportation in America, the decades-old method of funding the nation’s roads and bridges with gasoline taxes will soon be a relic of its past. Yet, the last time Congress addressed declining revenues in the federal Highway…

Congress has refused to increase federal gas taxes, which have been stuck at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993.

All 50 states have received final approval to begin construction on a first nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations that places one roughly every 50 miles along interstate highways

‘What’s outrageous is that lithium-ion batteries are going to become more and more prevalent in people using them because they’re lighter weight and they last a lot longer,’ the Rhode Island congressman said

LOS ANGELES — If your flight is canceled, you should be able to use your ticket to fly on a different airline to reach your final destination.

The federal government is proposing tougher rules for when airlines must give passengers refunds for changing their travel plans

It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.