Sec. 5311. Heavy freight automated trucking research corridor
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Subchapter I of chapter 55 of title 49, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the INVEST in America Act , the Secretary of Transportation shall establish a heavy freight automated trucking research initiative to explore the potential benefits and risks of the broad scale adoption of heavy freight automated commercial motor vehicles. In carrying out the initiative established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— support and conduct research and development on automated and connected freight trucking with private industry, driver associations, other Federal agencies, State and local transportation agencies, and institutions of higher education; and support or establish a heavy freight automated trucking testing and demonstration corridor and related programs.
The Secretary shall establish an agenda for research and development conducted under subsection (b)(1) and the programs described in subsection (b)(2) that may include— analyzing, modeling, and piloting the feasibility, benefits, and risks of dedicated automated trucking corridors, including any impact on— long distance freight movement; supply chains; fuel economy and emissions; transportation infrastructure; vehicle miles traveled; small business concerns (as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ); the trucking industry workforce, such as any impact on pay, benefits, and working conditions in both long-haul trucking and any related driving jobs; safety, including interactions with non-automated motor vehicles and other road users; and surrounding communities; and providing deployment guidance, including for— cyber-physical security; and human factors, such as— human-machine interfaces; psychological impacts; driver training; and strategies to address any impacts on the workforce, such as impacts on driver retention, wages, benefits, and working conditions within the trucking industry.
In developing the research agenda under subsection (b), the Secretary shall conduct outreach to, and solicit input from, public, private, and academic stakeholders, including individual workers and labor organizations (as such terms are defined in section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 152 )). An institution of higher education (as defined in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1002 )) or a consortium composed of nonprofit research organizations and institutions of higher education shall be eligible to receive grants under this section.
The Secretary may award grants to eligible entities described in subsection
(e)to carry out this section. In awarding a grant under this section, the Secretary shall— give preference to the recipient’s past and current collaboration with local and State transportation agencies, other Federal agencies, private industry, and driver associations in activities related to this section; give preference to a recipient whose geographic location offers access to long-haul trucking corridors; consider the extent to which an applicant’s proposal would involve participation by local, regional, and national stakeholders; and consider the local, regional, and national impacts of the applicant’s proposal. As a condition of receiving a grant under this section, a grant recipient shall match 50 percent of the costs of establishing and operating the test corridor and related activities carried out by the grant recipient. The matching amounts referred to in paragraph
(1)may include amounts made available to the recipient under— section 504(b) of title 23; or section 505 of title 23. The results of testing and research funded under this section shall be made available on a publicly accessible website of the Department of Transportation. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $6,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2023 through 2026 for activities carried out under this section. In this section, the term heavy freight automated commercial motor vehicle means a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle (as such term is defined in section 31101) that— has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds, whichever is greater; and is designed to be operated exclusively by a Level 4 automated driving system for trips within the vehicle’s operational design domain or a Level 5 automated driving system for all trips according to the recommended standards published in April 2021, by the Society of Automotive Engineers International (J3016_202104) or, when adopted, equivalent standards established by the Secretary with respect to automated motor vehicles. . The analysis for chapter 55 of title 49, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the following: 5511. Heavy freight automated trucking research corridor. .
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