Surface Transportation Research and Development Act of 2005
Latest action · Jan 7, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 6, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Surface Transportation Research and Development Act of 2005 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through 2010 for certain surface transportation research and development (R&D) activities.
Amends Federal highway law to revise requirements for transportation: (1) research strategic planning, requiring development of a five-year transportation R&D strategic plan to guide Federal transportation R&D activities; and (2) deployment grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a National Multimodal Trends Policy Research Program that systematically addresses critical short-term, medium-term, and long-term social science issues affecting and affected by the transportation system.
Directs the Secretary to implement programs to promote and demonstrate the application of innovative pavement technologies and technologies in highway safety.
Establishes the Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Education Program.
Directs the Secretary to arrange with the National Research Council to develop a National Transportation Information Needs Assessment.
Requires the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to establish an Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics.
Directs the Secretary to establish a Future Strategic Highway Research Program.
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to revise the Intelligent Transportation Systems Act of 1998 and rename it the Intelligent Transportation Systems Act of 2005.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through 2010 for: (1) transit R&D; (2) highway safety R&D; and (3) motor carrier R&D.
Directs the Secretary to establish an Innovative Practices and Technologies Demonstration and Deployment Program.
Amends Federal transportation law to authorize the Secretary (or the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development when required for urban transportation planning) to make grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning to: (1) conduct competent R&D and investigations into the theoretical or practical problems of urban transportation; and (2) train individuals to conduct further R&D or obtain employment in an organization that plans, builds, operates, or manages an urban transportation system.
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a motor carrier R&D program; (2) a multimodal energy and climate change program to study the relationship of transportation, energy, and climate change as part of the National Climate Change Technology Initiative and the Climate Change Research Initiative; (3) a national cooperative freight transportation R&D program; (4) data exchange formats to ensure that highway and transit monitoring systems data, including statewide incident reporting systems, can readily be exchanged across jurisdictional boundaries; and (5) a planning capacity building initiative to support enhancements in transportation planning.
Directs the President shall establish a Next Generation National Transportation Policy Study Commission.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2005 |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2005 |
| Highways and Transit Subcommittee | Referred Jan 7, 2005 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 7, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
- Jan 6, 2005Introduced in House
- Jan 6, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E33)
- Jan 6, 2005Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E33 | Vernon J. Ehlers R-MI | Jan 6, 2005 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 243 | To authorize appropriations to the Department of Transportation for surface transportation research and development, and for other purposes. | Text similarities | Feb 10, 2005 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To authorize appropriations to the Department of Transportation for surface transportation research and development, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Surface Transportation Research and Development Act of 2005
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Intelligent Transportation Systems Act of 2005
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Administrative procedure
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Authorization
- Bikeways
- Boundaries
- Bridges
- Building materials
- Business records
- Canada
- Climate
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- College costs
- Commerce
- Competitive bidding
- Computer software
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Cost accounting
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Curricula
- Data banks
- Demography
- Department of Transportation
- Disasters
- Economic research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic government information
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Engineering
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal libraries
- Federal officials
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fraud
- Freight
- Fuel consumption
- Geographic information systems
- Government internships
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Higher education
- Highway maintenance
- Human engineering
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Intermodal transportation
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Labor and Employment
- Land use
- Latin America
- Law
- Limited access highways
- Local employees
- Management information systems
- Mass rapid transit
- Mathematics
- Metropolitan areas
- Mexico
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Minority employment
- Motor buses
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- National parks
- Native Americans
- Pedestrians
- Performance measurement
- Policy sciences
- Presidential appointments
- Presidential commissions
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Quality of life
- Railroad freight operations
- Railroad passenger traffic
- Remote sensing
- Research and development
- Research and development facilities
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Road construction
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Secondary education
- State employees
- State laws
- Strategic planning
- Surveys
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Technology transfer
- Telecommuting
- Terrorism
- Traffic accidents and safety
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic engineering
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation planning
- Transportation research
- Transportation safety
- Transportation workers
- Trucking
- Trucks
- Urban affairs
- Urban transportation
- Weather
- Weather forecasting
- Women
- Women's education
- Women's employment
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 6, 2005Introduced in House
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