PUBLIC LAW 105-178-^JUNE 9, 1998 112 STAT. 187 SEC. 1210, ADVANCED TRAVEL FORECASTING PROCEDURES PROGRAM. 23 USC 135 note. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— The Secretary shall establish an advanced travel forecasting procedures program— (1) to provide for completion of the advanced transportation model developed under the Transportation Analysis Simulation System (referred to in this section as "TRANSIMS"); and (2) to provide support for early deployment of the advanced transportation modeling computer software and graphics package developed under TRANSIMS and the program established under this section to States, local governments, and metropolitan planning organizations with responsibility for travel modeling. (b) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. — The Secretary shall use funds made available under this section to— (1) provide funding for completion of core development of the advanced transportation model; (2) develop user-friendly advanced transportation modeling computer software and graphics packages; (3) provide training and technical assistance with respect to the implementation and application of the advanced transportation model to States, local governments, and metropolitan planning organizations with responsibility for travel modeling; and (4) allocate funds to not more than 12 entities described in paragraph (3), representing a diversity of populations and geographic regions, for a pilot program to enable transportation management areas designated under section 134(i) of title 23, United States Code, to convert from the use of travel forecasting procedures in use by the areas as of the date of enactment of this Act to the use of the advanced transportation model. (c) FUNDING.— (1) IN GENERAL.— T here are authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) to carry out this section $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1998, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1999, $6,500,000 for fiscal year 2000, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2003. (2) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.— (A) FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999.— For each of fiscal years 1998 and 1999, 100 percent of the funds made avail- I able under paragraph (1) shall be allocated to activities as described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (b). ! (B) FISCAL YEARS 2000 THROUGH 2003. —For each of fiscal years 2000 through 2003, not more than 50 percent of the funds made available under paragraph (1) may be
allocated to activities described in subsection (b)(4). (3) CONTRACT AUTHORITY. —Funds authorized under this subsection shall be available for obligation in the same manner as if the funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, except that the Federal share of the cost of— (A) any activity described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (b) shall not exceed 100 percent; and (B) any activity described in subsection (b)(4) shall not exceed 80 percent.
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