ings and recommendations developed under the Stra-
tegic Highway Research Program 2 administered by 
the Transportation Research Board of the National 
Academy of Sciences. 
‘‘(2) BASIS FOR FINDINGS.—The activities car-
ried out under this subsection shall be based on the 
Transportation Research Board Special Report 296 
entitled ‘Implementing the Results of the Second 
Strategic Highway Research Program: Saving Lives, 
Reducing Congestion, Improving Quality of Life’. 
‘‘(3) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The Secretary 
may use 1 percent of the funds made available to 
carry out this subsection for the administrative costs 
under this subsection. 
‘‘(4) FEES.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may 
impose and collect fees to recover costs associ-
ated with special data or analysis requests re-
lating to safety naturalistic driving databases 
developed under the future strategic highway 
research program. 
‘‘(B) USE OF FEE AMOUNTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Any fees collected 
under this paragraph shall be made avail-
able to the Secretary to carry out this sub-
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section and shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
‘‘(ii) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.— 
Any fee amounts collected under this para-
graph shall supplement, but not supplant, 
amounts made available to the Secretary to 
carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 5. TRAINING AND EDUCATION. 
Section 504 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)(A) by inserting ‘‘and 
the employees of any other applicable Federal 
agency’’ after ‘‘employees’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3)(A)(ii)(V) by striking 
‘‘expediting’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘reducing 
the 
amount of time required for’’; 
(2) in subsection (b) by striking paragraph (3) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(3) FEDERAL SHARE.— 
‘‘(A) LOCAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CEN-
TERS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to clause 
(ii), the Federal share of the cost of any 
activity carried out by a local technical as-
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sistance center under paragraphs (1) and 
(2) shall be 50 percent. 
‘‘(ii) NON-FEDERAL
SHARE.—Up to 
100 percent of the non-Federal share of 
the cost of an activity described in clause 
(i) may consist of amounts provided to a 
recipient under subsection (e) or section 
505. 
‘‘(B) 
TRIBAL
TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE 
CENTERS.—The Federal share of the cost of an 
activity carried out by a tribal technical assist-
ance center under paragraph (2)(D)(ii) shall be 
100 percent.’’; 
(3) in subsection (c) by striking paragraph (2) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER TRANSPOR-
TATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
establish and implement a transportation re-
search fellowship program, to be known as the 
‘Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fel-
lowship Program’, for the purpose of attracting 
qualified students to the field of transportation. 
‘‘(B) USE
OF
AMOUNTS.—Amounts pro-
vided to an institution of higher education to 
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carry out this paragraph shall be used to pro-
vide direct support of student expenses.’’; 
(4) in subsection (d) by striking paragraph (4); 
(5) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the text before subparagraph 
(A) 
by 
striking 
‘‘sections 
104(b)(1), 
104(b)(2), 
104(b)(3), 
104(b)(4), 
and 
144(e)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (1) 
through (3) of section 104(b)’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D) by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(iii) in subparagraph (E) by striking 
the period at the end and inserting a semi-
colon; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(F) activities carried out by the National 
Highway Institute under subsection (a); and 
‘‘(G) local technical assistance programs 
under subsection (b).’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2) by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘; except 
for activities carried out under paragraph 
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(1)(G) for which the Federal share shall be 50 
percent as described in subsection (b)(3)(A)’’; 
(6) in the heading of subsection (f) by striking 
‘‘PILOT’’; and 
(7) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘institu-
tion of higher education’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1001).’’. 
SEC. 6. REPEALS. 
Sections 506 and 507 of title 23, United States Code, 
and the items relating to such sections in the analysis of 
chapter 55 of such title, are repealed. 
SEC. 7. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
STRATEGIC PLANNING. 
Section 508(a) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of the Driving Research 
through Innovative Viable Economic Solutions Act 
of 2012, the Secretary, acting through the Adminis-
trator of the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration, shall develop a 5-year transportation 
research and development strategic plan to guide 
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Federal transportation research and development ac-
tivities. This plan shall be consistent with section 
306 of title 5, sections 1115 and 1116 of title 31, 
and any other research and development plan within 
the Department of Transportation. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—The strategic plan developed 
under paragraph (1) shall describe the primary pur-
poses of the transportation research and develop-
ment program, which shall include, at a minimum— 
‘‘(A) reducing congestion and improving 
mobility; 
‘‘(B) promoting safety in both rural cor-
ridors and metropolitan areas; 
‘‘(C) improving goods movement in both 
rural corridors and metropolitan areas; 
‘‘(D) protecting and enhancing the envi-
ronment; 
‘‘(E) preserving the existing transportation 
system; 
‘‘(F) improving the durability and extend-
ing the life of transportation infrastructure; and 
‘‘(G) improving rural connectivity and mo-
bility.’’. 
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SEC. 8. ADDITIONAL REPEALS. 
Sections 509 and 510 of title 23, United States Code, 
and the items relating to such sections in the analysis of 
chapter 55 of such title, are repealed. 
SEC. 9. INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. 
(a) PROGRAM PLAN UPDATE.—Section 512(a)(1) of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking 
‘‘SAFETEA-LU’’ and inserting ‘‘Driving Research 
through Innovative Viable Economic Solutions Act of 
2012’’. 
(b) PURPOSES.—Section 5303(b) of the SAFETEA- 
LU is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (8) by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(9) ensure a systems approach that includes 
cooperation among vehicles, the infrastructure, and 
users.’’. 
(c) 
MEMBERSHIP.—Section 
5305(h)(2) 
of 
the 
SAFETEA-LU is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The Advisory Committee 
shall have not more than 20 members, be balanced 
between metropolitan and rural interests, and in-
clude representatives from state and local highway 
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departments, academia, industry, and other relevant 
organizations.’’. 
(d) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—Section 5306 
of the SAFETEA-LU is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(3) by striking ‘‘systems 
with goals of’’ and all that follows through ‘‘emer-
gency care providers and trauma centers;’’ and in-
serting ‘‘systems;’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c) by inserting ‘‘percent’’ 
after ‘‘80’’. 
(e) NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND STANDARDS.— 
Section 5307 of the SAFETEA-LU is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking paragraph (4); 
and 
(2) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) CONFORMITY
WITH
REGIONAL
ARCHITEC-
TURE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Secretary shall ensure that intelligent 
transportation system projects carried out using 
amounts made available from the Highway Trust 
Fund, including amounts made available to deploy 
intelligent transportation systems, conform to the 
appropriate regional intelligent transportation sys-
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tem architecture, applicable standards or provisional 
standards, and protocols developed under subsection 
(a) or this subsection. 
‘‘(2) SECRETARY’S
DISCRETION.—The Sec-
retary may authorize exceptions to paragraph (1) 
for— 
‘‘(A) projects designed to achieve specific 
research objectives outlined in the national in-
telligent transportation system program plan or 
the surface transportation research and devel-
opment strategic plan developed under section 
508 of title 23, United States Code; or 
‘‘(B) the upgrade or expansion of an intel-
ligent transportation system in existence on the 
date of enactment of this Act if the Secretary 
determines that the upgrade or expansion— 
‘‘(i) would not adversely affect the 
goals or purposes of this subtitle; 
‘‘(ii) is carried out before the end of 
the useful life of such system; and 
‘‘(iii) is cost-effective as compared to 
alternatives that would meet the con-
formity requirement of paragraph (1).’’. 
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(f) VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHICLE-TO-INFRA-
STRUCTURE
COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEMS
DEPLOY-
MENT.— 
(1) 
IN
GENERAL.—Section 
5309 
of 
the 
SAFETEA-LU is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 5309. VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE AND VEHICLE-TO-INFRA-
STRUCTURE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS DE-
PLOYMENT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of enactment of the Driving Research through Inno-
vative Viable Economic Solutions Act of 2012, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, 
and Technology of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate a report that— 
‘‘(1) describes a recommended implementation 
path for dedicated short-range communications tech-
nology and applications; and 
‘‘(2) includes guidance on the relationship of 
the proposed deployment of dedicated short-range 
communications to the national architecture and 
standards. 
‘‘(b) NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REVIEW.—The 
Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the National 
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Research Council for the review by the National Research 
Council of the report described in subsection (a).’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of 
contents of the SAFETEA-LU is amended by strik-
ing the item relating to section 5309 and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘Sec. 5309. Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications sys-
tems deployment.’’. 
(g) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 513(a) of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking 
‘‘this’’. 
SEC. 10. ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY. 
Section 112 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) PROGRAM EVALUATION AND OVERSIGHT.—For 
each of fiscal years 2013 through 2016, the Administrator 
may expend not more than 11⁄2 percent of the amounts 
authorized to be appropriated for the administration and 
operation of the Research and Innovative Technology Ad-
ministration to carry out the coordination, evaluation, and 
oversight of the programs administered by the Administra-
tion. 
‘‘(g) COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AND DEVELOP-
MENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—To encourage innovative 
solutions to multimodal transportation problems and 
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