Need for Speed Act

This bill would require the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to work with a university-based transportation research institute to build and maintain a national online tool about traffic congestion. The tool would combine federal, state, local, and publicly available private data, such as speeds, trip origins and destinations, crashes, road conditions, freight, and truck parking, linked to the national highway monitoring system. It would be used to find where congestion happens, help determine its causes, measure its impacts, and guide investment and operating decisions. The tool would be updated at least once a year, and the bill authorizes $50 million from the Highway Trust Fund, available for 5 fiscal years.

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Sponsors

• John Cornyn Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors