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This bill, titled the "Need for Speed Act," mandates that the Secretary of Transportation develop and maintain a national infrastructure intelligence tool to help reduce traffic congestion. This tool will integrate various data sources, including information on road conditions, speed limits, vehicle travel patterns, safety incidents, and freight movement, with the official public highway performance monitoring system, which is a database of road information used by states and the Department of Transportation. The purpose of this tool is to identify where congestion occurs, understand its causes, measure its impact, and facilitate quicker decisions for investing in and implementing solutions to alleviate it. The bill specifies that the tool should incorporate data such as national speed and vehicle origin/destination datasets, crash data, asset condition data, commodity information, and truck parking availability, drawing on existing resources like the Federal Highway Administration's Urban Congestion Report and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report. The Secretary is required to consult with state transportation departments and other relevant organizations during development and update the tool at least annually, with $50 million authorized for its creation and maintenance.

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