Transportation industry

The airport in Gary, Ind. tapped a team that includes Guggenheim Securities and Loop Capital to advance a plan to privatize the Chicago-area facility.

With boardings down 37%, Colorado Springs Airport plans to cut costs through bond refundings and reduced hiring.

New York MTA's $200 million in catastrophe bonds to cover storm surge risk are one example of Hurricane Sandy's effect on public finance.

New head of state highway officials group seeks national economic stability through sustainable federal transportation funding.

After a four-day strike, union workers and San Francisco Bay Area Transit management have reached a tentative agreement on labor contracts.

Rhode Island's new municipal road and bridge revolving fund generated applications from 13 municipalities requesting $29 million, Treasurer Gina Raimondo announced.

Chicago last week officially unveiled its newest $1.3 billion runway under its ongoing $8 billion O'Hare Modernization Program.

Indiana Monday issued a request for qualifications for firms interested in building a new toll collection system for the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project.

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District strike is a credit negative for the transit system, according to Moody's Investors Service.

After nearly two years of analysis, Indiana University has dropped its effort to privatize its parking system.

llinois and Indiana's plan to build a controversial $1.3 billion toll-road through public private partnerships cleared a key hurdle as an Illinois-based regional planning committee voted to include the project in the area's long-range plan.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority will kick off $1.2 billion of new money bond sales with a $650 million issuance on Oct. 23.

Anticipating a default by June, Moody's downgraded $1.1 billion of debt for the State Highway 130 toll road near Austin, Texas to Caa3.

Transit historian Peter Derrick says that whatever the cost, unifying New York City's regional commuter rail systems would pay economic dividends.

U.S. transportation sectors are in the doldrums with little increase in activity seen in 2013, Fitch says in new report

Honolulu officials notified a federal judge that they have met the additional environmental requirements for the city's $5.3 billion elevated rail project he outlined in a December 2012 order.

Texas lawmakers may allocate $250 million of unexpected registration fees to reverse a plan to convert some paved state roads to gravel.

Voters in gilt-edged Raleigh and Wake County, N.C., approved selling a total of $885 million of general obligation bonds for schools and transportation projects.

Colorado's Regional Transportation District could expect to spend about $1.4 billion for an extension of its FasTracks rail line to suburbs northwest of Denver, according to a study released Monday.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill exempting the state's transit workers from pension reform while suing the federal government for blocking pension reform for those workers.