Williams & Jensen's transportation practice encompasses all areas of law affecting private and public sector providers, and consumers of transportation services. Clients include airlines, railroads, public transit providers, and pipeline companies, as well as cities, states, and transportation industry manufacturers. The firm regularly represents clients before Congress, the White House, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the US Department of Transportation and all of its agencies.
Effective, creative solutions for diverse transportation challenges
Regardless of whether a matter is legislative, regulatory, administrative, judicial or business related, Williams & Jensen is well positioned to help clients' achieve their aims. We have extensive experience across the full spectrum of issues that arise in transportation planning, implementation, and operations, regardless of the mode of transportation. Notably, over the last thirty years, we have represented clients in every major transportation authorization and appropriations bill.
Among the many issues the firm has addressed are the following:
- Aviation: aviation safety, the Airport Improvement Program, passenger facility charges (PFCs), airport privatization, letters of intent (LOIs), and airport revenue diversion, the war risk insurance program, and NTSB accident investigations
- Surface: Federal-aid highway and mass transit construction projects, truck size and weight, bus rapid transit, bridges, railroad mergers, rail safety, high-speed rail, and Amtrak
- Maritime: Port infrastructure and security, maritime safety, US and foreign flag passenger vessels, and ferry boats
- Industrywide: Transportation security, innovative infrastructure finance, multimodal transportation funding, full funding agreements for transit projects, and transportation taxes
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