Welcome

Welcome to the Surface Transportation Board’s Web site. We encourage you to explore the site and make full use of its capabilities, including live audio streaming, e-filing, and enhanced searching of all of our databases. If you have ideas for improving the site, send them to web.site.feedback@stb.dot.gov.

Items of Interest

On September 20, the STB announced the placement on its site of the full text of Volume 4 of the "STB Reports" series of publications. To view this latest volume, click here.

On September 9, 2004, Chairman Roger Nober spoke at the railroad service forum in Kansas City. To see his presentation, click here.

On August 6, 2004, the STB publicly released the Class I railroads' "fall peak" service plans. Chairman Roger Nober wrote to the presidents of each Class I railroad on June 9, 2004 asking them to inform the STB of their plans to meet this fall's expected increase in demand for rail transportation. For links to Chairman Nober’s letter and the Class I railroads’ responses, click here.

About the STB

The STB is an economic regulatory agency that Congress charged with the fundamental missions of resolving railroad rate and service disputes and reviewing proposed railroad mergers. The STB is decisionally independent, although it is administratively affiliated with the U.S. Department of Transportation. It was created in the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 and is the successor agency to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The agency has jurisdiction over railroad rate and service issues and rail restructuring transactions (mergers, line sales, line construction, and line abandonments); certain trucking company, moving van, and non-contiguous ocean shipping company rate matters; certain intercity passenger bus company structure, financial, and operational matters; and rates and services of certain pipelines not regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.