§70203 — Title 49 Transportation | U.S. Code

Summary

Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Transportation must start developing new tools and improve current ones to help judge freight and other transportation projects. These tools must include ways to analyze benefits and costs at national or regional levels; allow project reviews to look at safety, economic competitiveness, city and rural access, environmental sustainability, and system condition; improve data collection and trend analysis; encourage public‑private data sharing while keeping proprietary data private; and other planning supports. The Secretary must also pick model data elements to support many evaluation methods and, working with other federal agencies, look for ways to fix freight data gaps and improve freight demand forecasts. The Secretary must consult with federal, state, and other stakeholders while doing this.

Title 49, §70203

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(a)Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall—

(1)begin development of new tools and improvement of existing tools to support an outcome-oriented, performance-based approach to evaluate proposed freight-related and other transportation projects, including—

(A)methodologies for systematic analysis of benefits and costs on a national or regional basis;

(B)tools for ensuring that the evaluation of freight-related and other transportation projects could consider safety, economic competitiveness, urban and rural access, environmental sustainability, and system condition in the project selection process;

(C)improved methods for data collection and trend analysis;

(D)encouragement of public-private collaboration to carry out data sharing activities while maintaining the confidentiality of all proprietary data; and

(E)other tools to assist in effective transportation planning;

(2)identify transportation-related model data elements to support a broad range of evaluation methods and techniques to assist in making transportation investment decisions; and

(3)at a minimum, in consultation with other relevant Federal agencies, consider any improvements to existing freight flow data collection efforts that could reduce identified freight data gaps and deficiencies and help improve forecasts of freight transportation demand.

(b)The Secretary shall consult with Federal, State, and other stakeholders to develop, improve, and implement the tools and collect the data described in subsection (a).

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The date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 114–94, which was approved Dec. 4, 2015.

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Section effective Oct. 1, 2015, see section 1003 of Pub. L. 114–94, set out as an

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of 2015 Amendment note under section 5313 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§70203 Transportation investment data and planning tools

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Title 49, §70203

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