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Transportation Infrastructure: States' Implementation of Transportation Management Systems

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 13, 1997
Report No. RCED-97-32
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Summary:

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 requires states to develop six systems for managing highway pavement, bridges, highway safety, congestion, public transportation facilities and equipment, and intermodal transportation facilities and systems. Management systems can take various forms, including computerized inventories of assets, software programs, systematic procedures for collecting and analyzing information, and committees that make recommendations for improving the systems' performance. In 1995, legislation made the systems optional, except for the congestion management system in certain areas, and prohibited the Transportation Department from withholding funds from states that chose not to implement any system. This report identifies (1) the status of the states' development and implementation of the systems, (2) how the states expect to use the systems, and (3) the factors that have facilitated or hindered the development and implementation of the systems.

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