DOT Press Releases
unavailable Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Department of Transportation
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What this source is
The Department of Transportation sets national transportation policy and houses the modal safety administrations. Its newsroom index carries departmental press releases on infrastructure funding, safety rules, and enforcement, typically several items per week.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
transportation-newsroom- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Transportation
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- unavailable
- Tier
- 1
- URL (home)
- https://www.transportation.gov/newsroom (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF). Recorded, not evaded. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: transportation-email (plus the modal-administration lists) (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- Would parse the newsroom HTML index daily for new items.
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.
All time
No requests to www.transportation.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.