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23 U.S.C. § 515 — General authorities and requirements

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23 U.S.C. § 515 — General authorities and requirements

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**(a) Scope.—** Subject to the provisions of sections 512 through 518, the Secretary shall conduct an ongoing intelligent transportation system program— (1) to research, develop, and operationally test intelligent transportation systems; and (2) to provide technical assistance in the nationwide application of those systems as a component of the surface transportation systems of the United States. **(b) Policy.—** Intelligent transportation system research projects and operational tests funded pursuant to sections 512 through 518 shall encourage and not displace public-private partnerships or private sector investment in those tests and projects. **(c) Cooperation With Governmental, Private, and Educational Entities.—** The Secretary shall carry out the intelligent transportation system program in cooperation with State and local governments and other public entities, the private sector firms of the United States, the Federal laboratories, and institutions of higher education, including historically Black colleges and universities and other minority institutions of higher education. **(d) Consultation With Federal Officials.—** In carrying out the intelligent transportation system program, the Secretary shall consult with the heads of other Federal agencies, as appropriate. **(e) Technical Assistance, Training, and Information.—** The Secretary may provide technical assistance, training, and information to State and local governments seeking to implement, operate, maintain, or evaluate intelligent transportation system technologies and services. **(f) Transportation Planning.—** The Secretary may provide funding to support adequate consideration of transportation systems management and operations, including intelligent transportation systems, within metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes. **(g) Information Clearinghouse.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Secretary shall— (A) maintain a repository for technical and safety data collected as a result of federally sponsored projects carried out under sections 512 through 518; and (B) make, on request, that information (except for proprietary information and data) readily available to all users of the repository at an appropriate cost. (2) **Agreement.—** (A) *In general.—* — The Secretary may enter into an agreement with a third party for the maintenance of the repository for technical and safety data under paragraph (1)(A). (B) *Federal financial assistance.—* — If the Secretary enters into an agreement with an entity for the maintenance of the repository, the entity shall be eligible for Federal financial assistance under this section. (3) **Availability of information.—** — Information in the repository shall not be subject to sections 552 and 555 of title 5, United States Code. **(h) Advisory Committee.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Committee (referred to in this subsection as the “Advisory Committee”) to advise the Secretary on carrying out sections 512 through 518. (2) **Membership.—** — The Advisory Committee shall have no more than 25 members, be balanced between metropolitan and rural interests, and include, at a minimum— (A) a representative from a State highway department; (B) a representative from a local highway department who is not from a metropolitan planning organization; (C) a representative from a State, local, or regional transit agency; (D) a representative from a State, local, or regional wildlife, land use, or resource management agency; (E) a representative from a metropolitan planning organization; (F) a representative of a national transit association; (G) a representative of a national, State, or local transportation agency or association; (H) a private sector user of intelligent transportation system technologies; (I) a private sector developer of intelligent transportation system technologies, which may include emerging vehicle technologies; (J) an academic researcher with expertise in computer science or another information science field related to intelligent transportation systems, and who is not an expert on transportation issues; (K) an academic researcher who is a civil engineer; (L) an academic researcher who is a social scientist with expertise in transportation issues; (M) an academic researcher who is a biological or ecological scientist with expertise in transportation issues; (N) a representative from a nonprofit group representing the intelligent transportation system industry; (O) a representative from a public interest group concerned with safety; (P) a representative of a labor organization; (Q) a representative of a mobility-providing entity; (R) an expert in traffic management; (S) a representative from a public interest group concerned with the impact of the transportation system on land use and residential patterns; (T) a representative from a public interest group concerned with the impact of the transportation system on terrestrial and aquatic species and the habitat of those species; and (U) members with expertise in planning, safety, telecommunications, and operations; (V) an expert in cybersecurity; and (W) an automobile manufacturer. (3) **Term.—** (A) *In general.—* — The term of a member of the Advisory Committee shall be 3 years. (B) *Renewal.—* — On expiration of the term of a member of the Advisory Committee, the member— (i) may be reappointed; or (ii) if the member is not reappointed under clause (i), may serve until a new member is appointed. (4) **Meetings.—** — The Advisory Committee— (A) shall convene not less frequently than twice each year; and (B) may convene with the use of remote video conference technology. (5) **Duties.—** — The Advisory Committee shall, at a minimum, perform the following duties: (A) Provide input into the development of the intelligent transportation system aspects of the strategic plan under [section 6503 of title 49](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section6503&num=0&edition=prelim). (B) Review, at least annually, areas of intelligent transportation systems programs and research being considered for funding by the Department, to determine— (i) whether these activities are likely to advance either the state-of-the-practice or state-of-the-art in intelligent transportation systems; (ii) whether the intelligent transportation system technologies are likely to be deployed by users, and if not, to determine the barriers to deployment; and (iii) the appropriate roles for government and the private sector in investing in the programs, research, and technologies being considered. (6) **Report.—** — Not later than May 1 of each year, the Secretary shall make available to the public on a Department of Transportation website a report that includes— (A) all recommendations made by the Advisory Committee during the preceding calendar year; (B) an explanation of the manner in which the Secretary has implemented those recommendations; and (C) for recommendations not implemented, the reasons for rejecting the recommendations. (7) **Applicability of chapter 10 of title 5, united states code.—** — The Advisory Committee shall be subject to chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code. **(i) Reporting.—** (1) **Guidelines and requirements.—** (A) *In general.—* — The Secretary shall issue guidelines and requirements for the reporting and evaluation of operational tests and deployment projects carried out under sections 512 through 518. (B) *Objectivity and independence.—* — The guidelines and requirements issued under subparagraph (A) shall include provisions to ensure the objectivity and independence of the reporting entity so as to avoid any real or apparent conflict of interest or potential influence on the outcome by parties to any such test or deployment project or by any other formal evaluation carried out under sections 512 through 518. (C) *Funding.—* — The guidelines and requirements issued under subparagraph (A) shall establish reporting funding levels based on the size and scope of each test or project that ensure adequate reporting of the results of the test or project. (2) **Special rule.—** — Any survey, questionnaire, or interview that the Secretary considers necessary to carry out the reporting of any test, deployment project, or program assessment activity under sections 512 through 518 shall not be subject to chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code.

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5 U.S.C. § 5313 — Positions at level II

Level II of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):

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49 U.S.C. § 6503 — Transportation research and development 5-year strategic plan

**(a) In General.—** Not later than 180 days after the date of publication of the Department of Transportation Strategic Plan and not less frequently than once every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall develop a 5-year transportation research and development strategic plan to guide future Federal transportation research and development activities. **(b) Consistency.—** Each strategic plan developed under subsection (a) shall be consistent with— (1) [section 306 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section306&num=0&edition=prelim); (2) sections 1115 and 1116 of title 31; and (3) any other research and development plan within the Department of Transportation. **(c) Contents.—** Each strategic plandeveloped under subsection (a) shall— (1) describe how the plan furthers the primary purposes of the transportation research and development program, which shall include— (A) improving mobility of people and goods; (B) reducing congestion; (C) promoting safety; (D) improving the durability and extending the life of transportation infrastructure; (E) preserving the environment; (F) preserving the existing transportation system; and (G) reducing transportation cybersecurity risks; (2) for each of the purposes referred to in paragraph (1), list the primary proposed research and development activities that the Department of Transportation intends to pursue to accomplish that purpose, which may include— (A) fundamental research pertaining to the applied physical and natural sciences; (B) applied science and research; (C) technology development research; and (D) social science research; and (3) for each research and development activity— (A) identify the anticipated annual funding levels for the

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23 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions and declaration of policy

**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply: (1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws. (2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost. (3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided. (4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon

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23 U.S.C. § 515 — General authorities and requirements

Page 466 TITLE 23—HIGHWAYS § 515 surface transportation, with particular em- phasis on assisting State and local govern- ments to achieve national environmental goals; (4) accommodation of the needs of all users of surface transportation systems, including operators of commercial motor vehicles, pas- senger motor vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians (including individuals with disabilities); (5) enhancement of national defense mobil- ity and improvement of the ability of the United States to respond to security-related or other manmade emergencies and natural disasters; and (6) enhancement of the national freight sys- tem and support to national freight policy goals. (b) PURPOSES.—The Secretary shall implement activities under the intelligent transportation system program, at a minimum— (1) to expedite, in both metropolitan and rural areas, deployment and integration of in- telligent transportation systems for con- sumers of passenger and freight transpor- tation; (2) to ensure that Federal, State, and local transportation officials have adequate knowl- edge of intelligent transportation systems for consideration in the transportation planning process; (3) to improve regional cooperation and op- erations planning for effective intelligent transportation system deployment; (4) to promote the innovative use of private resources in support of intelligent transpor- tation system development; (5) to facilitate, in cooperation with the motor vehicle industry, the introduction of ve- hicle-based safety enhancing systems; (6) to support the application of intelligent transportation systems that increase the safe- ty and efficiency of commercial motor vehicle operations; (7) to develop a workforce capable of devel- oping, operating, and m

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