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Surface Transportation: Research Funding, Federal Role, and Emerging Issues

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 6, 1996
Report No. RCED-96-233
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Summary:

Spending on passenger and freight transportation exceeds $1 trillion annually, representing about 11 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Decisions on surface transportation research have far-reaching consequences because research provides the knowledge, products, and technologies needed to make transportation more efficient, effective, and safe. This report discusses (1) the public and private funding for surface transportation research, (2) the transportation community's views on the federal role in surface transportation research and the Transportation Department's ability to fulfill that role, and (3) the issues that the transportation community believes that Congress and the Transportation Department should consider during reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

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