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 PUBLIC LAW 102-240—DEC. 18, 1991 105 STAT. 2189 establish and operate a national institute for intelligent vehiclehighway concepts. Such institute shall conduct research and recommend development activities which focus on methods to increase roadway capacity, enhance safety, and reduce negative environmental effects of transportation facilities through the use of intelligent vehicle-highway systems technologies. "(5) INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND EDU- North Carolina. CATION. — The Secretary shall make grants under this section to the University of North Carolina to conduct research and development and to direct technology transfer and training for State and local transportation agencies to improve the overall surface transportation infrastructure. "(6) FUNDING. —T here is authorized to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund, other than the Mass Transit Account, for each of fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 $250,000 per fiscal year to carry out paragraph (1), $3,000,000 per fiscal year to carry out paragraph (2), $1,000,000 per fiscal year to carry out paragraph (3), $1,000,000 per fiscal year to carry out paragraph (4), and $1,000,000 per fiscal year to carry out paragraph (5). "(7) APPLICABILITY OF TITLE 23. —Funds authorized by this subsection shall be available for obligation in the same manner as if such funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code.". PART B—INTELLIGENT VEHICLE-HIGHWAY SYSTEMS ACT SEC. 6051. SHORT TITLE. This part may be cited as the terns Act of 1991". Intelligent Vehicle- Highway Systems Act of 1991. 23 USC 307 note. 'Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Sys- SEC. 6052. ESTABLISHMENT AND SCOPE OF PROGRAM. (a) ESTABLISHMENT. —Subject to the provisions of this part, the Secretary shall conduct a program to research, develop, and operationally test intelligent vehicle-highway systems and promote implementation of such systems as a component of the Nation's surface transportation systems. (b) GOALS.—The goals of the program to be carried out under this part shall include, but not be limited to— (1) the widespread implementation of intelligent vehicle-highway systems to enhance the capacity, efficiency, and safety of the Federal-aid highway system and to serve as an alternative to additional physical capacity of the Federal-aid highway system; (2) the enhancement, through more efficient use of the Federal-aid highway system, of the efforts of the several States to attain air quality goals established pursuant to the Clean Air Act; (3) the enhancement of safe and efficient operation of the Nation's highway systems with a particular emphasis on aspects of systems that will increase safety and identification of aspects of the system that may degrade safety; (4) the development and promotion of intelligent vehiclehighway systems and an intelligent vehicle-highway systems

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