Transportation

In a bid to create momentum for a massive overhaul of the crumbling passenger rail corridor between New Jersey and New York City, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Tuesday proposed the creation of a new nonprofit development corporation to plan and finance the project.

Southwest Airlines Co. said Tuesday that passenger traffic rose in July over the same month last year, but the carrier predicted that a key revenue figure will drop 1 percent in the third quarter, an indication of lower average prices.

Passengers are flying more and empty seats are even harder to find on American Airlines and US Airways.

United Airlines said Monday that passengers flew more miles and left fewer seats empty last month than in July 2014.

An unusual home taking shape inside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is intended to be part of a movement to rebuild Detroit's economy and deteriorating housing stock.

Four more maritime officials were put under formal investigation Friday as a charred ferry was towed into the Italian port of Brindisi and authorities prepared to search it for possible more dead.

A worker at Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant has died after his head got stuck in a hatch on the back of a septic tank truck while inspecting the vehicle, the latest accident at a site still struggling with the cleanup of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Some shipbuilding maintenance employees in Maine are splitting a $3 million lottery jackpot.

Officials in New Mexico are blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not informing them soon enough about a plume of mustard-colored muck floating downstream from a Colorado mine.

Los Angeles has agreed to give up LA/Ontario International Airport, returning the struggling complex to local control after three decades and ending a long legal battle, it was announced Thursday.

Officials say a major bridge between Philadelphia and New Jersey and some major highways in the area will be closed during Pope Francis' visit next month.

Passengers on Frontier Airlines face a dizzying lineup of fees on everything from carry-on bags to sodas.

Delta says traffic is up from last year but a key revenue measure is down, indicating that fares are likely declining from last summer.

Two cranes being used in the restoration of a bridge in the central Dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn fell onto a row of buildings Monday, flattening apartments and small shops.

A U.S. official says air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that a photo of aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year.

A shipping company will pay more than $15 million to the state of Hawaii for a 2013 molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor.

The National Wildlife Federation accused the U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday of not enforcing a federal law that requires pipeline owners and operators to establish safety response plans for worst-case oil spills in lakes, rivers and other waterways.

Anyone who has ever had a door ding in a new car knows how they're feeling at American Airlines.

The Northern Cheyenne tribe is planning additional investigations of cultural sites along the path of a proposed railroad that would open new areas of southeastern Montana to large-scale coal mining.