- advanced transportation and congestion management technologies
means technologies that improve the efficiency, safety, or state of good repair of surface transportation systems, including intelligent transportation systems.
- Center of Excellence
means a Center of Excellence for Resilience and Adaptation designated under subsection (b).
- eligible entity
means a State or local government, a transit agency, metropolitan planning organization, or other political subdivision of a State or local government or a multijurisdictional group or a consortia of research institutions or academic institutions.
- Federal laboratory
includes a Government-owned, Government-operated laboratory and a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory.
- highly automated vehicle
means a motor vehicle that—
- incident
means a crash, natural disaster, workzone activity, special event, or other emergency road user occurrence that adversely affects or impedes the normal flow of traffic.
- innovation lifecycle
means the process of innovating through—
- institution
means a private sector entity, public agency, research university or other research institution, or organization representing transportation and technology leaders or other transportation stakeholders that, as determined by the Secretary, is capable of working with State highway agencies, the Federal Highway Administration, and the highway construction industry to develop and evaluate new products, design technologies, and construction methods that quickly lead to pavement improvements.
- institution of higher education
has the meaning given that term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
- intelligent transportation infrastructure
means fully integrated public sector intelligent transportation system components, as defined by the Secretary.
- lifecycle costs analysis
means a process for evaluating the total economic worth of a usable project segment by analyzing initial costs and discounted future costs, such as maintenance, user, reconstruction, rehabilitation, restoring, and resurfacing costs, over the life of the project segment.
- local educational agency
has the meaning given that term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
- multijurisdictional group
means any combination of State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning agencies, transit agencies, or other political subdivisions of a State for which each member of the group—
- national architecture
means the common framework for interoperability that defines—
- new mobility
includes shared services such as—
- project
means an undertaking to research, develop, or operationally test intelligent transportation systems or any other undertaking eligible for assistance under this chapter.
- related entity
means a contractor, subcontractor (at any tier), supplier, user, customer, cooperating party, grantee, investigator, or detailee.
- safety
includes highway and traffic safety systems, research, and development relating to vehicle, highway, driver, passenger, bicyclist, and pedestrian characteristics, accident investigations, communications, emergency medical care, and transportation of the injured.
- standard
means a document that—
- State educational agency
has the meaning given that term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
- surface transportation workforce development, training, and education
means activities associated with surface transportation career awareness, student transportation career preparation, and training and professional development for surface transportation workers, including—