Transportation industry

Moody's upgraded Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's general revenue bond ratings to Aa3 from A1 citing its financial and operational strengths.

Buoyed by record ridership in 2013, public transit advocates want their fair share of funding from Washington in the next multi-year surface transportation bill.

Standard & Poor's raised its rating on the Iowa Board of Regents' parking system revenue bonds one level to AA-minus based on strong parking demand.

The two boards of the Irvine, Calif.-based Transportation Corridor Agencies are scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to accept a settlement agreement governing the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Neil Peterson.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the Regional Transportation District of Colorado's debt, maintaining a negative outlook on RTD’s certificates of participation.

Construction associations and labor unions have formed a grassroots coalition to pressure Congress for additional investment in transportation infrastructure.

Work is set to begin this summer on a controversial $3.3 billion bridge spanning the Detroit River despite a lack of commitment of expected funds in President Barack Obama's budget.

Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., wants an additional $4 billion of tax-exempt private activity bonds available for transportation projects.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation named Clayton Somers as the new executive director of the Turnpike Authority.

U.S. President Barack Obama included $250 million in his fiscal year 2015 budget for Honolulu's $5.2 billion elevated rail project that will extend 20 miles from the capitol city to the opposite side of the island of Oahu.

Public transit advocates push for $100 billion of federal funding for mass transit over six years in the new surface transportation spending law.

New York's MTA made a formal request for a second federal presidential emergency board to help Long Island Rail Road reach an agreement with eight of its unions.

Georgia plans to begin dredging Savannah Harbor even though President Obama's 2015 budget failed to include federal construction funds for the project.

President Obama will ask Congress in his fiscal 2015 budget proposal for $2.5 billion in transit grants for 26 projects in 16 states.

The Irvine, Calif.-based Transportation Corridor Agencies has placed Chief Executive Officer Neil Peterson on leave after a dust-up involving contract approvals.

Colorado approves a $490 million public-private partnership to redevelop U.S. 36, but a Boulder group renews its threat of a lawsuit.

The full Massachusetts Senate on Thursday is expected to debate a five-year transportation borrowing bill that has risen to $13.2 billion.

A higher cap for federally allocated tax-exempt private activity bonds could make state transportation P3 projects more attractive to investors.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie released $96.6 million for the construction of capital improvement projects at state airports.

President Obama plans during the next two months to send Congress draft legislation for a four-year, $302 billion reauthorization of the surface transportation funding program, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told reporters Tuesday during a briefing on the fiscal 2015 budget.