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Volpe Center Highlights - January/February 2001

Mobility

Director's Notes | Focus | Safety | Mobility | Human and Natural Environment |
Economic Growth and Trade | National Security | Papers and Presentations

Ensure that the transportation system is accessible, integrated and efficient, and offers flexibility of choices.

Volpe Publishes Five-Year ITS Program Plan (DOT)

With passage of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998, the U.S. Congress reaffirmed DOT's role in advancing the development and integrated deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Accordingly, DOT recently published a five-year plan for the ITS Program. The report, titled "National Intelligent Transportation System Program Plan: Five-Year Horizon," was sponsored by the ITS Joint Program Office. The plan was transmitted to Congress in September 2000 and released in print to a wide audience in November 2000. The five-year plan sets forth a detailed account of DOT's course of action under TEA-21, and updates the first National ITS Program Plan, which was published in 1995. It presents the goals, activities, and milestones for the National ITS Program from fiscal years 1999 through 2003, specifying how certain programs and projects will achieve these goals, and identifying the necessary activities to promote and ensure interoperability and integrated deployment.

Ms. Cynthia Maloney of the Economic Analysis Division and Mr. Dan Berler, formerly of the ITS Joint Program Office, were the primary authors of the report. Additional writing support was provided by Mr. Peter Jones of the Transportation Strategic Planning and Analysis Division, Ms. Maureen Luna-Long of the Economic Analysis Division, and Mr. Alex Brown of Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (a Volpe Center contractor). Editorial support was provided by Mr. Eric Plosky of the Transportation Strategic Planning and Analysis Division, and Ms. Cassandra Oxley and Ms. Ann Walker both of EG&G Technical Services, Inc. (a Volpe Center contractor). Planners Collaborative, Inc. (a Volpe Center contractor) provided layout and printing support.

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