PUBLIC LAW 105-178—JUNE 9, 1998 112 STAT. 439 "(B) information on the volumes and patterns of movement of people, including local, interregional, and international movements, by all modes of transportation (including bicycle and pedestrian modes) and intermodal combinations, and by relevant classification; "(C) information on the location and connectivity of transportation facilities and services; and "(D) a national accounting of expenditures and capital stocks on each mode of transportation and intermodal combination. " (e) NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— The Director shall establish and maintain a National Transportation Library, which shall contain a collection of statistical and other information needed for transportation decisionmaking at the Federal, State, and local levels. "(2) ACCESS. —The Director shall facilitate and promote access to the Library, with the goal of improving the ability of the transportation community to share information and the ability of the Director to make statistics readily accessible under subsection (c)(5). "(3) COORDINATION. — The Director shall work with other transportation libraries and other transportation information providers, both public and private, to achieve the goal specified in paragraph (2). " (f) NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION ATLAS DATA BASE.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— The Director shall develop and maintain geospatial data bases that depict— "(A) transportation networks; "(B) flows of people, goods, vehicles, and craft over the networks; and "(C) social, economic, and environmental conditions that affect or are affected by the networks. "(2) INTERMODAL NETWORK ANALYSIS.— The data bases shall be able to support intermodal network analysis. " (g) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.— "(1) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary may make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, public and nonprofit private entities (including State transportation departments, metropolitan planning organizations, and institutions of higher education) for— "(A) investigation of the subjects specified in subsection (c)(1) and l-esearch and development of new methods of data collection, management, integration, dissemination, interpretation, and analysis; "(B) development of electronic clearinghouses of transportation data and related information, as part of the National Transportation Library under subsection (e); and "(C) development and improvement of methods for sharing geographic data, in support of the national transportation atlas data base under subsection (f) and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure developed under Executive Order No. 12906. "(2) LIMITATION. — Not more than $500,000 of the amounts made available to carry out this section in a fiscal year may be used to carry out this subsection.";
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