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Title: FEDERAL STRATEGY FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Accession Number: 00713045
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The importance of transportation to our economy is reflected in the priority placed on transportation research and development (R&D) by the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). The Committee on Transportation R&D, one of nine NSTC committees, is charged with ensuring that federal investment in transportation research conducted by all agencies is (a) coordinated to ensure efficient use of federal funds, (b) focused on projects identified as being the most critical, and (c) limited to areas in which it is clear that major public benefits can be achieved only through cost-shared federal research. The committee has developed an integrated approach to addressing the issues, needs, and priorities of federal transportation R&D that cuts across traditional transportation modes. This new approach focuses on such critical issues as physical infrastructure, information infrastructure, and vehicle technologies, as well as such systems issues as measuring, monitoring, characterizing, and modeling system performance and behavioral sciences and human performance in transportation systems. The committee played an important role in determining the science and technology investment priorities reflected in the President's 1996 budget. Despite overall cuts in discretionary spending, the proposed investments in science and technology have been increased from fiscal year 1995 levels. The fiscal year 1996 budget for transportation R&D is being increased by 10%. Physical infrastructure for transportation is highlighted as a national priority in the fiscal year 1996 budget with an increase of $74 million, or 30%, for physical infrastructure R&D over the 1995 budget. The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles--the "Clean Car" initiative--is another NSTC priority for fiscal year 1996. The combined budget proposal for the eight agencies participating in this initiative is $333 million in 1996, an increase of $87 million, or 35%, from 1995. The budget also proposes $434 million for the highest priority NASA aeronautics initiatives--the High-Speed Research and Advanced Subsonic Technology programs--an $87 million, or 25%, increase from 1995. A related and important product of NSTC during the past year was the development of the President's National Space Transportation Policy.
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Monograph Title: FORUM ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TRANSPORTATION R&D, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 6-7, 1995 Monograph Accession #: 00713043
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Gibbons, J HPagination: p. 17-19
Publication Date: 1995
Conference:
Forum on Future Directions in Transportation R&D
Location:
Washington, D.C. ISBN: 0309061679
Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 20 1995 12:00AM
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