Sec. 2. Advanced transportation technologies program
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Chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a program to provide grants to eligible entities to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, mobility, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment. In carrying out the program under subsection (a), the Secretary shall develop criteria for selection of an eligible entity to receive a grant, including how the proposed deployment of technology— reduces costs and improves return on investments, including through the optimization of existing transportation capacity; delivers environmental benefits by alleviating congestion and streamlining traffic flow; measures and improves the operational performance of the applicable transportation network; reduces the number and severity of traffic accidents and increases driver, passenger, and pedestrian safety; collects, disseminates, and uses information on real-time traffic, work zone, weather, transit, paratransit, parking, and other transportation-related information to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and provide for more efficient, accessible, and integrated transportation and transportation services; monitors transportation assets to improve infrastructure management, reduce maintenance costs, prioritize investment decisions, and ensure a state of good repair; delivers economic benefits by reducing delays, improving system performance, and providing for the efficient and reliable movement of goods and services; or accelerates the deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, and other technologies.
An application submitted for a project to be carried out by a grant under this program shall include the following: A plan to deploy and provide for the long-term operation and maintenance of advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and return on investment. Objectives for quantifiable system performance improvements, such as— reducing traffic-related accidents, congestion, and costs; optimizing system efficiency; and improving access to transportation services.
Quantifiable safety, mobility, and environmental benefit projections such as data-driven estimates of how the project proposes to improve the applicable transportation system efficiency and how such project proposes to reduce traffic congestion. A plan for any partnerships with private sector entities or public agencies, including multimodal and multijurisdictional entities, research institutions, organizations representing transportation and technology leaders, or other transportation stakeholders.
A plan to leverage and optimize existing local and regional advanced transportation technology investments. Each fiscal year for which funding is made available under this section, the Secretary shall award grants to not less than 5 and not more than 10 eligible entities. Subject to subparagraph (B), in awarding a grant under this section, the Secretary shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that grant recipients represent diverse geographic areas of the United States, including urban areas and rural areas.
Not less than 20 percent of the amounts made available to carry out this section shall be reserved for projects serving rural areas, to the extent there are sufficient eligible applications. In awarding a grant under this section, the Secretary shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that grant recipients represent a variety of technology solutions. A grant recipient may use funds awarded under this section to deploy advanced transportation technologies, including— advanced traveler information systems; advanced transportation management technologies; advanced transportation technologies to improve emergency evacuation and response by Federal, State, and local authorities; infrastructure maintenance, monitoring, and condition assessment; advanced public transportation systems; transportation system performance data collection, analysis, and dissemination systems; advanced safety systems, including vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-pedestrian, and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, technologies associated with autonomous vehicles, and other collision avoidance technologies, including systems using cellular technology; integration of intelligent transportation systems with the Smart Grid and other energy distribution and charging systems; integrated corridor management systems; advanced parking reservation or variable pricing systems; electronic pricing, toll collection, and payment systems; technology that enhances high occupancy vehicle toll lanes, cordon pricing, or congestion pricing; advanced mobility and access technologies, such as dynamic ridesharing and information systems to support human services for elderly and disabled individuals; technology that collects and maintains automated driving system safety data and data analysis tools; cybersecurity protection measures and activities to protect against cybersecurity threats; or advanced vulnerable road user safety information systems.
The Secretary shall ensure that a recipient of a grant under this section submits, not later than 1 year after the recipient receives a grant and annually thereafter, a report to the Secretary that describes— deployment and operational costs of the project compared to the benefits and savings the project provides; and how the project has met the original expectations projected in the deployment plan submitted with the application, such as— data on how the project has helped reduce traffic accidents, congestion, costs, and other benefits of the deployed systems; data on the effect of measuring and improving transportation system performance through the deployment of advanced transportation technologies; the effectiveness of providing real-time integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation information to the public to make informed travel decisions; and lessons learned and recommendations for future deployment strategies to optimize transportation mobility, efficiency, and multimodal system performance.
The Secretary shall provide grant recipients with methods and techniques to support consistent data collection across grant recipients and may update such methods and techniques as appropriate. The Secretary shall provide grant recipients notice of an update described in subparagraph
(A)not less than 90 days before carrying out such update. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, and once every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary shall make available to the public on the website of the Department of Transportation an updated report that describes the effectiveness of grant recipients in meeting projected deployment plans including data described in subsection
(f)on how the program has— reduced traffic-related fatalities and injuries; reduced traffic congestion and improved travel time reliability; reduced transportation-related emissions; optimized multimodal system performance; improved access to transportation alternatives; provided the public with access to real-time integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation information to make informed travel decisions; provided cost savings to transportation agencies, businesses, and the traveling public; or provided other benefits to transportation users and the general public. The Secretary may terminate a grant provided under this section and deobligate funds provided by such grant if— the Secretary determines from a report submitted pursuant to subsection
(f)that a recipient of such grant is not carrying out the requirements of the grant; and the Secretary provides written notice to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Environment and Public Works and Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate 60 days prior to deobligating funds under this subsection. Of the amounts provided to carry out this section, the Secretary may set aside $2,000,000 each fiscal year for program reporting, evaluation, and administrative costs related to this section. The Federal share of the cost of a project for which a grant is awarded under this subsection shall not exceed 50 percent of the cost of the project. The Secretary may not award more than 15 percent of the amount described under subsection (i). A grant recipient under this section may use not more than 5 percent of the funds awarded each fiscal year to carry out planning and reporting requirements. If, by August 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary determines that there are not enough grant applications that meet the requirements described in subsection
(c)to carry out this section for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall transfer to the programs specified in paragraph (2)— any of the funds reserved for the fiscal year under subsection
(i)that the Secretary has not yet awarded under this section; and an amount of obligation limitation equal to the amount of funds that the Secretary transfers under subparagraph (A). The programs referred to in paragraph
(1)are— the programs under sections 503(b) and 503(c); and the programs under sections 512 through 518. Any transfer of funds and obligation limitation under paragraph
(1)shall be divided among the programs referred to in that paragraph in the same proportions as the Secretary originally reserved funding from the programs for the fiscal year under subsection (i). In this section, the following definitions apply: The term advanced transportation technologies means technologies that improve the efficiency, safety, or state of good repair of surface transportation systems, including intelligent transportation systems. The term eligible entity means a State or local government, a transit agency, metropolitan planning organization, or a political subdivision of a State or local government, a multijurisdictional group, a public academic institution, public research institution, or a consortia of research institutions or academic institutions. The term multijurisdictional group means any combination of State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, transit agencies, or other political subdivisions of a State for which each member of the group— has signed a written agreement to implement a project carried out under this section across jurisdictional boundaries; and is an eligible entity under this section. The term Smart Grid means a system that provides for any of the smart grid functions set forth in section 1306(d) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 17386(d) ). . The analysis for chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 520. Advanced transportation technologies program. . Chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking section 503(c)(4).
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