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Surface Transportation: Research Funding, Federal Role, and Emerging Issues

RCED-96-233 Published: Sep 06, 1996. Publicly Released: Sep 06, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on surface transportation research, focusing on: (1) public and private funding for surface transportation research; (2) the transportation community's views on such research and the Department of Transportation's (DOT) ability to fulfill that role; and (3) issues that the transportation community believes that Congress and DOT should address during the reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA).

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