President Clinton established the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) by Executive Order on November 23, 1993. This cabinet-level council is the principal means for the President to coordinate science, space, and technology policies across the Federal Government.

In its 1997 Transportation Science and Technology Strategy, the NSTC Committee on Transportation Research and Development called for development of Strategic Partnership Initiatives in a number of areas, including sustainable transportation. An interagency Transportation and Sustainable Communities Team has been formed to develop plans for research investments in this area. The Team's first phase of work defined a framework for sustainable transportation and describing current interagency research using that framework. This National Research Agenda for Transportation and Sustainable Communities documents the second phase in an evolutionary process to coordinate Federal research activities related to transportation and sustainable communities, and to identify and realize new opportunities for partnerships on multiple levels. It should be treated as a work in progress.

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