Source: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/fastact/factsheets/itsprogramfs.cfm
Timestamp: 2017-12-13 11:12:10
Document Index: 717187933

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 6002', '§ 6002', '§ 6004', '§ 6002', '§ 6005', '§ 6006', '§ 6010']

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program - FAST Act Fact Sheets | Federal Highway Administration
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The FAST Act continues the ITS program, which provides for the research, development, and operational testing of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aimed at solving congestion and safety problems, improving operating efficiencies in transit and commercial vehicles, and reducing the environmental impact of growing travel demand. Guided by the required five-year ITS Strategic Plan, the program is currently focused on significantly reducing crashes through advanced safety systems based on interoperable wireless communications among surface transportation vehicles of all types, traffic signals, other infrastructure systems, pedestrians, wireless devices, and automated vehicle systems.
FAST Act § 6002, 6005-6010; 23 U.S.C. 512-519
Contract authority from the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund. Funds are available until expended. Funds are subject to the overall Federal-aid obligation limitation and the obligation limitation associated with these funds is available for four fiscal years. Funds are not transferrable except as otherwise provided in the FAST Act. [FAST Act § 6002(c)]
Of the total authorized for the ITS Program, the FAST Act requires DOT to set aside an unspecified amount for each of FYs 2016-2020 as one component of the $60 million in funding for the Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Program (see separate fact sheet). [FAST Act § 6004]
The Federal share of a project or activity carried out with funds authorized under section 6002 of the FAST Act shall be 80% unless expressly specified by the FAST Act (including amendments by the FAST Act) or otherwise determined by the Secretary. [FAST Act § 6002(c)(1)]
The FAST Act continues without change the activities eligible under the ITS Program but limits the ability to use program funds for the construction of physical surface transportation infrastructure (see below).
Freight-related program goal
The FAST Act adds to the ITS Program a new goal: enhancement of the national freight system and support to national freight policy goals. [FAST Act § 6005; 23 U.S.C. 514(a)(6)]
Research related to disruption of connected and automated vehicles
The FAST Act requires DOT, under the ITS Program, to implement activities that assist in the development of cybersecurity research to help prevent hacking, spoofing, and disruption of connected and automated transportation vehicles. [FAST Act § 6006; 23 U.S.C. 514(b)(10)]
The FAST Act states that funds made available for operational tests of ITS under the ITS Program—
shall be used primarily for the development of ITS infrastructure, equipment, and systems; and
to the maximum extent practicable, shall not be used for the construction of physical surface transportation infrastructure unless the construction is incidental and critically necessary to the implementation of an ITS project. [FAST Act § 6010; 23 U.S.C. 519]