I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5591 
To enhance transportation programs in order to connect people to jobs, 
schools, and other essential services through a multimodal transportation 
network, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 
Ms. FUDGE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To enhance transportation programs in order to connect 
people to jobs, schools, and other essential services 
through a multimodal transportation network, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation Con-
nections to Opportunity Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN PLAN DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) SECTION 134 AMENDMENT.—Section 134(i) of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (4), by inserting after sub-
paragraph (C) the following: 
‘‘(D) PUBLIC
INVOLVEMENT.—Metropoli-
tan planning organizations shall offer interested 
parties, such as those described in paragraph 
(6), a reasonable opportunity to participate in 
the development and consideration of sce-
narios.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (6)(A), by striking ‘‘comment 
on the transportation plan’’ and inserting ‘‘provide 
input during the development and implementation of 
the transportation plan’’. 
(b) 
SECTION
135 
AMENDMENT.—Section 
135(f)(3)(A)(ii) of title 23, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘comment on the transportation plan’’; and 
inserting ‘‘provide input during the development of the 
transportation plan’’. 
(c) SECTION 5303 AMENDMENT.—Section 5303(i) of 
title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4), by inserting after sub-
paragraph (C) the following: 
‘‘(D) PUBLIC
INVOLVEMENT.—Metropoli-
tan planning organizations shall offer interested 
parties, such as those described in paragraph 
(6), a reasonable opportunity to participate in 
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the development and consideration of different 
scenarios.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘comment on 
the transportation plan’’ and inserting ‘‘provide 
input during the development and implementation of 
the transportation plan’’. 
(d) 
SECTION
5304 
AMENDMENT.—Section 
5304(f)(3)(A)(ii) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘comment on the proposed plan’’; 
and inserting ‘‘provide input during the development of 
the transportation plan’’. 
SEC. 3. CONNECTION TO OPPORTUNITY NATIONAL GOAL 
AND POTENTIAL PERFORMANCE MEASURE. 
(a) TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIONS
TO OPPOR-
TUNITY.—Section 150(b) of title 23, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘highway in-
frastructure asset system’’ and inserting ‘‘infrastruc-
ture asset system under this title’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) MULTIMODAL CONNECTIVITY.—To achieve 
an interconnected transportation system which con-
nects people to jobs, schools, and other essential 
services through a multimodal network.’’. 
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(b) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
PERFORMANCE
MEAS-
URES.—Section 150(c) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘as listed in 
paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (6)’’ before the period; 
and 
(2) by adding the following at the end: 
‘‘(7) MULTIMODAL
FREIGHT.—The Secretary 
may, in accordance with the national freight stra-
tegic plan under section 167, establish performance 
measures to assess the efficiency of the multimodal 
freight network. 
‘‘(8) TRANSPORTATION
CONNECTIVITY.—The 
Secretary may, in accordance with the framework es-
tablished in section 134, establish a performance 
measure to be used by metropolitan planning organi-
zations to assess the degree to which the transpor-
tation system provides multimodal connections to op-
portunity, particularly for transportation-disadvan-
taged populations.’’. 
SEC. 4. MEASURING TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIVITY 
PILOT ACTIVITIES. 
(a) TITLE 23.—Section 134 of title 23, United States 
Code, is further amended by inserting at the end, the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(r) MEASURING TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIONS 
TO OPPORTUNITY.— 
‘‘(1) CONNECTION
TO
OPPORTUNITY
PILOT 
PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(A) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Secretary 
shall establish a pilot program in which not 
more than 10 metropolitan planning organiza-
tions shall develop and deploy 1 or more pilot 
measures and targets to improve multimodal 
connectivity and increase connections for dis-
advantaged Americans and neighborhoods with 
limited transportation options. 
‘‘(B) PILOT
LOCATIONS.—The Secretary 
shall select not more than 10 metropolitan plan-
ning organizations in not more than 10 loca-
tions, each of which is the sole metropolitan 
planning organization serving an urbanized 
area of more than 1,000,000 residents, which 
shall include— 
‘‘(i) metropolitan planning organiza-
tions that have demonstrated previous suc-
cessful use of performance measurements 
and performance-based planning efforts, 
which the Secretary shall designate as 
mentor grantees; and 
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