Electric traffic-control boxes are the Mr. Cellophane of smooth traffic flow — bland, square, roughly the color of dryer lint. They hold the ligaments of fluent road management.  But because they are ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will embark on an ambitious three-year plan to modernize America's air traffic control systems and phase out the "outdated technologies that are unable to meet ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he wants a full modernization of the nation's antiquated air traffic control system within four years. On Thursday, he announced a far-reaching, estimated ...