Texas Business reports: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport—The seasonal KLM Royal Dutch Airlines nonstop service between DFW to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has resumed. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) plans to to advance two high-profile projects in the Houston area.

Texas Business reports:  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and AUSTIN, Texas—Zipcar Inc., a car-sharing network, expanded the Zipcar car sharing network into the City of Austin.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN—In a unanimous decision, the Texas Transportation Commission voted to revise the 2012 Unified Transportation Plan (UTP), formally allocating approximately $1.6 billion to communities across the state using existing funding formulas. 

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that Texas’ North Tarrant Express project has entered the final stage to receive $415 million under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) financing program, advancing a project that will address safety and congestion. 

Texas Business reports: DFW AIRPORT—More than one hundred employees and volunteers at DFW International Airport bid farewell to the final departing U.S. military charter flight this week, bringing an end to eight years of scheduled rest and recuperation (R&R) flights at the Airport.  

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Portions of two Central Texas highways will soon see speed limit increases following Thursday’s Texas Transportation Commission action approving 80 mph designations for 54 miles of roadway in the Austin area. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN - Nearly 1,200 loaded trucks are needed to bring just one gas well into production— the traffic equivalent to roughly 8 million cars.

 Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH—American Airlines and Beijing-based Hainan Airlines implemented their new codeshare agreement, providing significant opportunities for American in China and for Hainan in the United States. 

Texas Business reports:  THE WOODLANDS—FleetPride Inc. the nation's largest independent aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts, opened a new location in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Texas Business reports: MARSHALL – Amtrak and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) agreed on the scope of a feasibility study for new Amtrak service between the Bossier City -Shreveport area in Northwest Louisiana and along the Interstate 20 (I-20) corridor to Dallas and Fort Worth.

 Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virtual traffic controller.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—The greater Houston area is one step closer to reduced traffic congestion for more than 2.5 million people as the Texas Department of Transportation accelerates plans for the completion of the next phase of State Highway 99, also known as the Grand Parkway.

Texas Business reports:  BORGER—Mercuria Energy Trading Inc., based in Chicago, has developed a terminal to ship crude oil on the Panhandle Northern Railway (PNR), which operates on 31 miles of track between the towns of Panhandle and Borger, Texas.

Texas Business reports:  SAN ANTONIO—Rush Enterprises Inc. acquired certain assets of West Texas Peterbilt, a Peterbilt dealership group with five locations in Texas. 

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—McCarthy Building Companies Inc., a Texas builder for 30 years, won the $24.9 million Wellborn Road Grade Separations project, marking McCarthy’s first project with The Texas A&M University System.

Texas Business reports:  DFW AIRPORT—Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport today announced JetBlue Airways will serving DFW with three daily flights to Boston Logan International Airport, starting next May. 

Texas Business reports:  ROBSTOWN, Texas—State and federal transportation officials unveiled a 10 foot by 10 foot highway sign today in Robstown, marking the first segment of Interstate 69 in Texas and the first new interstate highway in Texas since 1992.corp_

Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH—Despite bankruptcy, American Airlines continues to make travel deals. 

Texas Business reports:  PLANO—The North Texas Tollway Authority financial team successfully executed the sale of $640,535,000 of bonds for the acquisition, development and construction of the Chisholm Trail Parkway.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Earlier this week, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport received its first Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machine for passenger screening.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—William P. Hobby Airport began a $6 million capital improvement project to its ticket-level entrance ramp that will impact thousands of customers who travel through Houston's second busiest airport.  

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN— The Texas Transportation Commission took action today to add Interstate 69 to the state highway system, allowing Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials to label the first Texas stretch of the nearly 1000-mile interstate since I-69 received federal high-priority route designation more than a decade ago.

Texas Business reports: New York-based Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global, single-source NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier) and subsidiary of Pacer International, plans to open an office in Houston to service all cargoes moving to and from the region.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN – The Texas Transportation Commission approved distribution of $3 billion in Proposition 12 bond funding that will address congested highways, rehabilitate bridges and improve connectivity between the state’s metropolitan areas.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN - In a letter to Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Administrator Victor Mendez granted a request to add 6.2 miles of US 77 between I-37 and SH 44 in South Texas to the interstate highway system.

 Texas Business reports:  ARLINGTON - The University of Texas at Arlington will make going green a little easier for motorists with the addition of a free public charging station for electric vehicles.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—KLD Energy Technologies  Inc., announced its motor system will be featured in a new line of electric scooters for the Malaysian market. 

Texas Business reports:  Austin—State transportation officials approved 17 projects around the state to be funded by TxDOT’s pass-through finance program, pending final negotiations. The Texas Transportation Commission approved the projects, estimated at $173 million, at its monthly meeting.

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Texas Business reports:  Texas again, as it has for three decades, is exploring high-speed rail possibilities.

Texas Business reports:  Texas Business reports:  Texas was the top surface trader with Mexico by a factor of almost three times as its nearest competitor, California, according to federal transportation statistics. 

Texas Business reports:  The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) and Collin County announced that they have reached agreement on a framework for the development of all future turnpike projects in the county, including a tollway that will one day form a portion of a ring project around North Texas.

Texas Business reports:  A Port Lavaca firm won a $3.3 million contract to dredge the Gulf intracoastal waterway in Aransas, Calhoun and San Patricio Counties from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Texas Business reports: An Austin firm is providing the batteries for a European electric car.

Texas Business reports:  Houston’s Kirby Corporation will buy the New Jersey-based K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P., an operator of tank barges and tugboats participating in the coastwise transportation primarily of refined petroleum products in the United States.

Texas Business reports:  Toshiba International Corporation will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston  for production of high-performance drive motors for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs).

Texas Business reports: Houston—Trico Marine Services Inc. plans to auction towing and suppy vessels, officials announced.

Texas Business reports:  Irving-based Heartland Automotive Services, Inc., America's largest Jiffy Lube Franchisee, bought Empire Lube Inc., II, the operator of Jiffy Lube retail service centers throughout Nassau County, Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York.

Texas Business reports:  Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc.  opened a Product Quality Field Office in Houston.

Texas Business reports:  CK Technologies LLC, a unit of Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Cascade Engineering and leading supplier to the commercial truck and bus market, will build a manufacturing facility for interior, exterior, and functional (under-the-hood) assemblies in Brownsville.

Texas Business reports:  A federal agency has shut down a Texas bus service for violating federal safety regulations. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN - State transportation official's efforts to address congestion and mobility continue with this week's action approving $313 million in funding for additional projects through the Proposition 14 bond program, officials said in a prepared statement. 

Texas Business reports: A 49-percent interest in American Heritage Railways of Texas LLC has been bought by a North Carolina company. 

Texas Business reports:  North Dakota-based Knife River was the successful bidder four different Texas State Highway projects totaling 19.3 million. 

Texas Business notes this story from the Wall  Street Journal about the 60-mile traffic jam in China and the Texas Transportation Institute.   

 Texas Business reports:  Fluor Corporation announced that it has signed a contract with the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (DoT) to provide program management consultancy (PMC) services for the Emirate's new Integrated Public Transportation Network. Fluor recognized the new award in the second quarter of 2010.

TexasBusiness.com reports  Brazos County leaders welcomed the passage of 2011 Transportation Appropriations bill by the House this week.

TexasBusiness.com notes: North Texans will get one chance to tell state officials what Texas' new statewide rail plan should include, and that chance is next week.  On Wednesday, the chief of the newly created rail division of the Texas Department of Transportation will lead a two-hour brainstorming session in Mesquite, reports Michael A. Lindenberger of the Dallas Morning News. 

TexasBusiness.com notes: North Texans will get one chance to tell state officials what Texas' new statewide rail plan should include, and that chance is next week.  On Wednesday, the chief of the newly created rail division of the Texas Department of Transportation will lead a two-hour brainstorming session in Mesquite, reports Michael A. Lindenberger of the Dallas Morning News.