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Johnson convinced Congress to act and The Department of Transportation was authorized in October 1966 and launched on 1 April 1967, with a mission to ensure that federal funds were effectively used to support the national transportation program.
Three months after signing the DOT Act, on January 16, 1968, Johnson appointed the first Secretary of Transportation, Alan Boyd. The new Department began full operations on April 1, 1967.
Creating the Department of Transportation. Below, interested readers will find a trove of documents that tell the Department's origin story.
The DOT Library has digitized historical documents from its collection relating to the history of the Department and transportation. The collections may be browsed and searched.
U.S. DOT History Site – Includes biographies of the Secretaries of Transportation, dates of administrators' service, descriptions of the modes, and a chronology of significant events in DOT's history.
Fifty years ago tomorrow, on Saturday, October 15, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the bill that created a new U.S. Department of Transportation. The enactment of the law was the culmination of a lengthy process of policy development and legislative action, all of which is chronicled on Eno’s now-complete Documentary History of ...
October 22, 1965 memo from Under Secretary Alan Boyd to Joseph Califano transmitting two papers – one recommending creation of a Department of Transportation, the other discussing transportation regulatory agency reform.
The Department of Transportation represents the combination of organizations in existence at the time of enactment of the DOT stature on August 15, 1966. This document summarizes the origins the various organizations, agencies and offices of DOT and the paths by which it became one Department.
1981: The Maritime Administration is moved from the Department of Commerce to the Department of Transportation. 1982: President Ronald Reagan proposes "turnback" legislation to end federal highway funding and the federal gasoline tax that supports it.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967.