Bill > HR3594

This bill authorizes appropriations to the Department of Transportation for surface transportation research, development, and deployment. Some key provisions include: - Authorizing funding for highway safety research and development, the highway research and development program, the technology and innovation deployment program, the advanced transportation and congestion management technologies deployment program, transportation training and education, and the intelligent transportation systems program. - Amending the highway safety improvement program definition to include education, enforcement, research activities, and cybersecurity. - Increasing funding for the behavioral traffic safety cooperative research program. - Establishing a program to create regional road weather research and development centers. - Authorizing funding for multimodal transportation research programs like the University Transportation Centers Program, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the National Cooperative Freight Transportation Research Program. - Creating new initiatives like the Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Centers of Excellence, the Vehicular Data Analytics Pilot Program, and the Heavy Freight Automated Trucking Research Corridor. - Requiring a quinquennial review and strategic plan for the Department of Transportation's transportation research and development activities.

Business and Industry, Transportation and Infrastructure

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3594/all-info