Transportation

After a dip in U.S. auto sales, automakers likely will face some retail challenges in 2018. But much of the industry’s focus will be on advancing self-driving cars and other new technologies.

Airline officials say a JetBlue Airways plane slid off of the taxiway at Boston's Logan Airport.

Cheap, electric bicycles have made life a lot easier for New York City's legions of restaurant delivery workers, but the party may be over in the New Year.

Home Depot has held internal discussions in recent months to buy XPO Logistics, one of the largest publicly traded U.S. freight-hauling and logistics companies, technology news website Recode reported on Friday.

The third-largest U.S. railroad, CSX, named Jim Foote as its chief executive succeeding veteran industry turnaround legend Hunter Harrison, who died last week only months into the railroad’s ambitious turnaround plan.

The pace of U.S. vehicle sales is set to slow for the third straight month in December despite aggressive discounts from manufacturers, according to industry consultants J.D. Power and LMC Automotive.

Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if railroads across the U.S. implemented critical speed-control technology that federal safety investigators have been pushing for close to five decades, according to rail crash data obtained by The Associated Press.

The group overseeing a project to build a new rail tunnel into New York City is meeting a week after federal officials expressed doubts about a plan to pay its estimated $13 billion price tag.

After unveiling its all-electric semi-trucks last month, Tesla Inc. has received a surge in pre-orders from U.S. businesses.

Federal investigators probing a deadly Amtrak derailment are trying to determine why the train was traveling at more than double the posted speed limit as it entered the curve where it left the tracks and plunged off an overpass and partly onto a busy freeway, killing three people and injuring dozens.

The Latest on aftermath of power outage at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.

The world's largest delivery company is ready to hit the hiring button.

Drive by the High Desert Truck Stop, turn down a rutted road by the bail bond signs, slip behind a steel fence edged with barbed wire, and you can glimpse the future of California's emerging legal pot industry.

The European Union's top court has ruled that ride-hailing service Uber should be regulated like a taxi company, a decision that could change the way it functions across the continent.

Count President Donald Trump among the personal winners in the $1.5 trillion tax package that Republicans in the House passed early Wednesday morning and the Senate is expected to approve later in the day.

The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost — critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active before the train set off on its maiden voyage.

The Latest on the European Union ruling that Uber should be regulated as a taxi company (all times local): 11:20 a.m.