Secretary of Transportation Speeches
Digitized copies of speeches by Secretaries of Transportation, dating from 1965 to 2011. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_sts OR https://doi.org/10.21949/1530850.
- Letter 1
- Policy Statement 7
- Press Release 5
- Speeches 261
- Text 1
- Boyd, Alan S. 204
- Volpe, John A. 71
- 1969 Paris Air Show 2
- Access 1
- Administrative procedures 1
- Adolescents 2
- Advertising 1
- Aeronautical engineering 1
- Aeronautics 2
- Aerospace industry 3
- Aircraft 2
- Aircraft industry 3
- Aircraft noise 3
- Airlines 2
- Air pilots 3
- Air pollution 4
- Airport capacity 9
- Airport facilities 2
- Airport noise 2
- Airport operations 7
- Airport planning 6
- Airports 12
- Airport traffic 2
- Air quality management 2
- Air traffic 4
- Air traffic control 3
- Air traffic control facilities 2
- Air transportation 3
- Air transportation policy 3
- Air travel 11
- Airways 2
- Alaska Railroad 1
- Appropriations 6
- Automobile driving 1
- Automobile industry 2
- Automobile insurance 3
- Automobile ownership 1
- Automobiles 1
- Aviation 22
- Aviation safety 3
- Awards 3
- BART 1
- Bay Area Rapid Transit System 1
- Beautification 8
- Bermuda 2 1
- Bermuda Agreement 1
- Boeing 1
- Boeing 747 1
- Boys Town of Italy 2
- Bridges 1
- Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety 1
- Bureau of Public Roads 1
- Buses 1
- Businesses 1
- Bus transportation 1
- Cable cars 1
- Career development 1
- Carriers 1
- Center Cities Transportation Program 1
- Charities 2
- Children 2
- Cities 1
- City planning 10
- Civil aircraft 2
- Civil aviation 2
- Civil engineering 1
- Civil rights 2
- Coasts 1
- Cold weather construction 1
- College graduates 4
- Commencement addresses 2
- Communication 2
- Communications 1
- Communities 1
- Conferences 3
- Congestion management systems 1
- Congressional hearings 13
- Construction 1
- Construction management 1
- Container handling 2
- Containerization 1
- Containers 3
- Contractors 1
- Cooperation 19
- Costs 1
- Crashes 1
- Crash victims 1
- Dash 80 1
- Data analysis 1
- Defense 2
- Demonstration projects 1
- Development 7
- Disaster preparedness 1
- Dissenters 1
- Documents 1
- Eagle (Ship : 1936- ) 1
- Economic and social factors 32
- Economic development 1
- Economic factors 2
- Economic growth 1
- Economics 13
- Education 2
- Education and training 1
- Elections 2
- Electronics industry 1
- Emergency management 1
- Emergency transportation 1
- Employee relations 1
- Employment 11
- Engineers 1
- Environment 1
- Environmental impacts 6
- Environmental protection 5
- Environmental quality 4
- Excavations, mines and oil fields 2
- Exhaust gases 1
- Exhibitions 3
- Fatalities 1
- Fear 1
- Feasibility analysis 1
- Federal-Aid Highway Act 9
- Federal aid 8
- Federal Aid Highway Act 1
- Federal aid highways 3
- Federal Aviation Administration 2
- Federal government 50
- Federal government agencies 2
- FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION 2
- Finance 4
- Financing 10
- Freight service 1
- Freight traffic 1
- Freight trains 2
- Freight transportation 2
- Fringe parking 1
- Future 4
- Gas pipelines 1
- Government agencies 1
- Government funding 49
- Governments 2
- Ground transportation 1
- Ground transportation crashes 2
- H.R. 16024 1
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 1
- Harbors 1
- Hazardous materials 1
- High speed ground transportation 2
- High Speed Ground Transportation Act 1
- High speed rail 1
- Highway engineering 1
- Highway planning 3
- Highways 8
- Highway safety 15
- Highway safety organizations 1
- Highway transportation 2
- Historic sites 1
- History 11
- Holidays 1
- Homeless persons 2
- Human factors 2
- Human factors engineering 5
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horation), 1911-1978 1
- Icebreakers 1
- Immigrants 1
- Impacts 1
- Infrastructure 1
- Inland waterways 2
- Innovation 3
- Institutional issues 1
- Intercity transportation 2
- Intercity travel 1
- Intergovernmental partnerships 1
- Intermodal transportation 4
- International airports 1
- International Air Show 2
- International compacts 1
- International relations 17
- International trade 5
- International travel 13
- Interorganizational relations 2
- Interstate highways 6
- Investments 1
- Jet transports 1
- Lakes 1
- Land use planning 2
- Law enforcement personnel 1
- Laws 1
- Laws and legislation 24
- Layover time 1
- Leadership 5
- Legislation 9
- Levels of government 1
- Living conditions 1
- Local government 1
- Local service airlines 1
- Lockheed C5-A 1
- Low income groups 2
- Management and organization 1
- Marine engineering 1
- Maritime industry 4
- Maritime law 1
- Maritime safety 1
- McFall, John J. 1
- Membership organizations 2
- Merchant marine 3
- Mergers 1
- Metroliner 2
- Military transportation 1
- Mobility 1
- Motor vehicle industry 1
- Motor vehicles 1
- Multimodal transportation 15
- National Highway Safety Act 1
- National Highway Safety Bureau 2
- National security 2
- Naval architecture 1
- Noise control 2
- Northeast Corridor 1
- Northwest Passage 2
- Oil spill cleanup 1
- Oil spills 1
- Operating costs 1
- Organization 1
- Organizations 1
- Partnerships 4
- Passenger aircraft 2
- Passenger trains 6
- Personnel management 1
- Personnel motivation 1
- Persons with disabilities 1
- Piggyback transportation 1
- Pipelines 1
- Pipeline safety 2
- Plan implementation 1
- Planning 1
- Polar regions 5
- Policy 6
- Policy, legislation and regulation 14
- Policy making 1
- Political science 1
- Politics 8
- Pollution 2
- Population density 1
- Port operations 1
- Ports 1
- Problem solving 2
- Professional personnel 1
- Proposals 1
- Protests 1
- Public participation 1
- Public private partnerships 3
- Public service 1
- Public transit 19
- Public works 1
- Quality of life 4
- Race 2
- Railroad construction 1
- Railroad grade crossings 1
- Railroad operations 3
- Railroads 9
- Railroad safety 6
- Railroad trains 1
- Railroad transportation 4
- Rail transit 2
- Rail transit stations 2
- Rapid transit 4
- Regional transportation 1
- Regulation 2
- Regulations 5
- Research 8
- Research and Development 1
- Roads 1
- Rural transportation 1
- Safety 10
- Safety education 1
- Service agencies 2
- Shipbuilding 2
- Ship officers 1
- Shipping 3
- Shipyards 1
- Smithsonian Institution 1
- Social diversity 1
- Social factors 2
- Social inclusion 1
- Social values 5
- Standards 6
- STOL aircraft 1
- Strategic planning 2
- Subsidies 1
- Supersonic aircraft 2
- Supersonic Transport (SST) program (U.S.) 1
- Systems analysis 2
- Taxes 3
- Technological innovations 1
- Technology 5
- Trade 2
- Traffic 1
- Traffic congestion 1
- Traffic data 1
- Traffic engineering 1
- Traffic safety 4
- Training 1
- Transit oriented development 1
- Transit traffic 1
- Transportation 51
- Transportation careers 1
- Transportation modes 1
- Transportation operations 1
- Transportation planning 70
- Transportation policy 59
- Transportation safety 20
- Transportation Week 1
- Trinity River 1
- Truck drivers 1
- Trucking 2
- Trucks 1
- Turbotrains 1
- United States. Act to Amend the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 1
- United States. Coast Guard 1
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Approprations. Subcommittee on Transportation 1
- United States. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1966 1
- United States. Highway Beautification Act of 1965 6
- United States. Highway Safety Act of 1966 5
- United States. National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 1
- United States. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 2
- United States Coast Guard 1
- Universities and colleges 2
- Urban areas 1
- Urban design 1
- Urban highways 4
- Urbanization 7
- Urban Mass Transit Administration 1
- Urban Mass Transportation Act 1
- Urban Mass Transportation Administration 2
- Urban renewal 1
- Urban transit 9
- Urban transportation 39
- Urban transportation policy 2
- Vehicle safety 5
- Voting 2
- VTOL aircraft 1
- Water resources 1
- Water transportation 6
- Waterways 1
- Weather conditions 1
- 1969 Paris Air Show (2)
- Access (1)
- Administrative procedures (1)
- Adolescents (2)
- Advertising (1)
- Aeronautical engineering (1)
- Aeronautics (2)
- Aerospace industry (3)
- Aircraft (2)
- Aircraft industry (3)
- Aircraft noise (3)
- Airlines (2)
- Air pilots (3)
- Air pollution (4)
- Airport capacity (9)
- Airport facilities (2)
- Airport noise (2)
- Airport operations (7)
- Airport planning (6)
- Airports (12)
- Airport traffic (2)
- Air quality management (2)
- Air traffic (4)
- Air traffic control (3)
- Air traffic control facilities (2)
- Air transportation (3)
- Air transportation policy (3)
- Air travel (11)
- Airways (2)
- Alaska Railroad (1)
- Appropriations (6)
- Automobile driving (1)
- Automobile industry (2)
- Automobile insurance (3)
- Automobile ownership (1)
- Automobiles (1)
- Aviation (22)
- Aviation safety (3)
- Awards (3)
- BART (1)
- Bay Area Rapid Transit System (1)
- Beautification (8)
- Bermuda 2 (1)
- Bermuda Agreement (1)
- Boeing (1)
- Boeing 747 (1)
- Boys Town of Italy (2)
- Bridges (1)
- Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety (1)
- Bureau of Public Roads (1)
- Buses (1)
- Businesses (1)
- Bus transportation (1)
- Cable cars (1)
- Career development (1)
- Carriers (1)
- Center Cities Transportation Program (1)
- Charities (2)
- Children (2)
- Cities (1)
- City planning (10)
- Civil aircraft (2)
- Civil aviation (2)
- Civil engineering (1)
- Civil rights (2)
- Coasts (1)
- Cold weather construction (1)
- College graduates (4)
- Commencement addresses (2)
- Communication (2)
- Communications (1)
- Communities (1)
- Conferences (3)
- Congestion management systems (1)
- Congressional hearings (13)
- Construction (1)
- Construction management (1)
- Container handling (2)
- Containerization (1)
- Containers (3)
- Contractors (1)
- Cooperation (19)
- Costs (1)
- Crashes (1)
- Crash victims (1)
- Dash 80 (1)
- Data analysis (1)
- Defense (2)
- Demonstration projects (1)
- Development (7)
- Disaster preparedness (1)
- Dissenters (1)
- Documents (1)
- Eagle (Ship : 1936- ) (1)
- Economic and social factors (32)
- Economic development (1)
- Economic factors (2)
- Economic growth (1)
- Economics (13)
- Education (2)
- Education and training (1)
- Elections (2)
- Electronics industry (1)
- Emergency management (1)
- Emergency transportation (1)
- Employee relations (1)
- Employment (11)
- Engineers (1)
- Environment (1)
- Environmental impacts (6)
- Environmental protection (5)
- Environmental quality (4)
- Excavations, mines and oil fields (2)
- Exhaust gases (1)
- Exhibitions (3)
- Fatalities (1)
- Fear (1)
- Feasibility analysis (1)
- Federal-Aid Highway Act (9)
- Federal aid (8)
- Federal Aid Highway Act (1)
- Federal aid highways (3)
- Federal Aviation Administration (2)
- Federal government (50)
- Federal government agencies (2)
- FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION (2)
- Finance (4)
- Financing (10)
- Freight service (1)
- Freight traffic (1)
- Freight trains (2)
- Freight transportation (2)
- Fringe parking (1)
- Future (4)
- Gas pipelines (1)
- Government agencies (1)
- Government funding (49)
- Governments (2)
- Ground transportation (1)
- Ground transportation crashes (2)
- H.R. 16024 (1)
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (1)
- Harbors (1)
- Hazardous materials (1)
- High speed ground transportation (2)
- High Speed Ground Transportation Act (1)
- High speed rail (1)
- Highway engineering (1)
- Highway planning (3)
- Highways (8)
- Highway safety (15)
- Highway safety organizations (1)
- Highway transportation (2)
- Historic sites (1)
- History (11)
- Holidays (1)
- Homeless persons (2)
- Human factors (2)
- Human factors engineering (5)
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horation), 1911-1978 (1)
- Icebreakers (1)
- Immigrants (1)
- Impacts (1)
- Infrastructure (1)
- Inland waterways (2)
- Innovation (3)
- Institutional issues (1)
- Intercity transportation (2)
- Intercity travel (1)
- Intergovernmental partnerships (1)
- Intermodal transportation (4)
- International airports (1)
- International Air Show (2)
- International compacts (1)
- International relations (17)
- International trade (5)
- International travel (13)
- Interorganizational relations (2)
- Interstate highways (6)
- Investments (1)
- Jet transports (1)
- Lakes (1)
- Land use planning (2)
- Law enforcement personnel (1)
- Laws (1)
- Laws and legislation (24)
- Layover time (1)
- Leadership (5)
- Legislation (9)
- Levels of government (1)
- Living conditions (1)
- Local government (1)
- Local service airlines (1)
- Lockheed C5-A (1)
- Low income groups (2)
- Management and organization (1)
- Marine engineering (1)
- Maritime industry (4)
- Maritime law (1)
- Maritime safety (1)
- McFall, John J. (1)
- Membership organizations (2)
- Merchant marine (3)
- Mergers (1)
- Metroliner (2)
- Military transportation (1)
- Mobility (1)
- Motor vehicle industry (1)
- Motor vehicles (1)
- Multimodal transportation (15)
- National Highway Safety Act (1)
- National Highway Safety Bureau (2)
- National security (2)
- Naval architecture (1)
- Noise control (2)
- Northeast Corridor (1)
- Northwest Passage (2)
- Oil spill cleanup (1)
- Oil spills (1)
- Operating costs (1)
- Organization (1)
- Organizations (1)
- Partnerships (4)
- Passenger aircraft (2)
- Passenger trains (6)
- Personnel management (1)
- Personnel motivation (1)
- Persons with disabilities (1)
- Piggyback transportation (1)
- Pipelines (1)
- Pipeline safety (2)
- Plan implementation (1)
- Planning (1)
- Polar regions (5)
- Policy (6)
- Policy, legislation and regulation (14)
- Policy making (1)
- Political science (1)
- Politics (8)
- Pollution (2)
- Population density (1)
- Port operations (1)
- Ports (1)
- Problem solving (2)
- Professional personnel (1)
- Proposals (1)
- Protests (1)
- Public participation (1)
- Public private partnerships (3)
- Public service (1)
- Public transit (19)
- Public works (1)
- Quality of life (4)
- Race (2)
- Railroad construction (1)
- Railroad grade crossings (1)
- Railroad operations (3)
- Railroads (9)
- Railroad safety (6)
- Railroad trains (1)
- Railroad transportation (4)
- Rail transit (2)
- Rail transit stations (2)
- Rapid transit (4)
- Regional transportation (1)
- Regulation (2)
- Regulations (5)
- Research (8)
- Research and Development (1)
- Roads (1)
- Rural transportation (1)
- Safety (10)
- Safety education (1)
- Service agencies (2)
- Shipbuilding (2)
- Ship officers (1)
- Shipping (3)
- Shipyards (1)
- Smithsonian Institution (1)
- Social diversity (1)
- Social factors (2)
- Social inclusion (1)
- Social values (5)
- Standards (6)
- STOL aircraft (1)
- Strategic planning (2)
- Subsidies (1)
- Supersonic aircraft (2)
- Supersonic Transport (SST) program (U.S.) (1)
- Systems analysis (2)
- Taxes (3)
- Technological innovations (1)
- Technology (5)
- Trade (2)
- Traffic (1)
- Traffic congestion (1)
- Traffic data (1)
- Traffic engineering (1)
- Traffic safety (4)
- Training (1)
- Transit oriented development (1)
- Transit traffic (1)
- Transportation (51)
- Transportation careers (1)
- Transportation modes (1)
- Transportation operations (1)
- Transportation planning (70)
- Transportation policy (59)
- Transportation safety (20)
- Transportation Week (1)
- Trinity River (1)
- Truck drivers (1)
- Trucking (2)
- Trucks (1)
- Turbotrains (1)
- United States. Act to Amend the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (1)
- United States. Coast Guard (1)
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Approprations. Subcommittee on Transportation (1)
- United States. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1966 (1)
- United States. Highway Beautification Act of 1965 (6)
- United States. Highway Safety Act of 1966 (5)
- United States. National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (1)
- United States. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (2)
- United States Coast Guard (1)
- Universities and colleges (2)
- Urban areas (1)
- Urban design (1)
- Urban highways (4)
- Urbanization (7)
- Urban Mass Transit Administration (1)
- Urban Mass Transportation Act (1)
- Urban Mass Transportation Administration (2)
- Urban renewal (1)
- Urban transit (9)
- Urban transportation (39)
- Urban transportation policy (2)
- Vehicle safety (5)
- Voting (2)
- VTOL aircraft (1)
- Water resources (1)
- Water transportation (6)
- Waterways (1)
- Weather conditions (1)
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