49 U.S.C. § 5501 — National Intermodal Transportation System policy
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-272 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 484 words · no verdicts yet
The United States Government must develop an efficient, environmentally sound transportation system that connects different transportation modes, supports global competition, saves energy, and moves people and property. The system must include specified highways, public transportation, access to ports and airports, new technologies, accountability, and financial support for state and local goals.
(a) General policy. The United States Government's policy is to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System that is economically efficient and environmentally sound, supports United States competition in the global economy, and moves people and property in an energy-efficient way.
(b) System characteristics. (1) The system must combine all forms of transportation in a unified, connected way, including future systems, to reduce energy use and air pollution while promoting economic development and United States leadership in international commerce.
(2) It must include a National Highway System made up of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways and principal arterial roads essential for interstate and regional commerce and travel, national defense, transfers between transportation modes, international commerce, and border crossings.
(3) It must include major public-transit improvements needed for national goals involving air quality, energy conservation, international competitiveness, and mobility for older people, people with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged people in urban and rural areas.
(4) It must improve access to ports and airports, which connect the Nation to commerce.
(5) It must give special attention to how transportation increases productivity. Social benefits must also be considered, especially the outside benefits of less air pollution, less traffic congestion, and other effects on quality of life.
(6) It must be operated and maintained with constant attention to innovation, competition, energy efficiency, productivity, growth, and accountability. Practices that made interstate-highway construction lengthy and too costly must be confronted and stopped.
(7) Where feasible and economical, it must be adapted to “intelligent vehicles,” magnetic-levitation systems, and other new technologies. Benefit-cost estimates must give special attention to safety and ways of allocating costs.
(8) When appropriate, the Highway Trust Fund will finance government apportionments and reimbursements. Financial help will go to state and local governments and their instrumentalities to help meet national mobility goals for older people, people with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged people.
(9) The system must be the centerpiece of a national investment commitment to create United States wealth in the 21st century.
(c) Distribution and posting. The Transportation Secretary must give every Department of Transportation employee copies of subsections (a) and (b) and ensure that the policy is posted in every Department office.
It is the policy of the United States Government to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System that is economically efficient and environmentally sound, provides the foundation for the United States to compete in the global economy, and will move individuals and property in an energy efficient way.
The National Intermodal Transportation System shall consist of all forms of transportation in a unified, interconnected manner, including the transportation systems of the future, to reduce energy consumption and air pollution while promoting economic development and supporting the United States’ preeminent position in international commerce.
The National Intermodal Transportation System shall include a National Highway System consisting of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways and those principal arterial roads that are essential for interstate and regional commerce and travel, national defense, intermodal transfer facilities, and international commerce and border crossings.
The National Intermodal Transportation System shall include significant improvements in public transportation necessary to achieve national goals for improved air quality, energy conservation, international competitiveness, and mobility for elderly individuals, individuals with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged individuals in urban and rural areas of the United States.
The National Intermodal Transportation System shall provide improved access to ports and airports, the Nation’s link to commerce.
The National Intermodal Transportation System shall give special emphasis to the contributions of the transportation sectors to increased productivity growth. Social benefits must be considered with particular attention to the external benefits of reduced air pollution, reduced traffic congestion, and other aspects of the quality of life in the United States.
The National Intermodal Transportation System must be operated and maintained with insistent attention to the concepts of innovation, competition, energy efficiency, productivity, growth, and accountability. Practices that resulted in the lengthy and overly costly construction of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways must be confronted and stopped.
The National Intermodal Transportation System shall be adapted to “intelligent vehicles”, “magnetic levitation systems”, and other new technologies, wherever feasible and economical, with benefit cost estimates given special emphasis on safety considerations and techniques for cost allocation.
When appropriate, the National Intermodal Transportation System will be financed, as regards Government apportionments and reimbursements, by the Highway Trust Fund. Financial assistance will be provided to State and local governments and their instrumentalities to help carry out national goals related to mobility for elderly individuals, individuals with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged individuals.
The National Intermodal Transportation System must be the centerpiece of a national investment commitment to create the new wealth of the United States for the 21st century.
The Secretary of Transportation shall distribute copies of the policy in subsections (a) and (b) of this section to each employee of the Department of Transportation and ensure that the policy is posted in all offices of the Department.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 848.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-272 · 108 Stat. 848
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