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CED-78-74 1 (1978-03-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawzw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT apSOYB 05619 - (B07656941 Making Future Transportation Decisions: Intermodal Plarzinq Needed. CED-78-71; B-167280. larch 16, 1978. 15 pp. + 3 appendices (5 pp.). Report to the Congress; by Eluer B. Staats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: Transportation Systems and Policies: National Policies and Programs (2406); Intergovernmental Relations and Revenue Sharing (400). Contact: Comnnity and Economi' Development Div. Budget Function: Coanerce and Trinsportation: Ground Transportation (404); Ciamerce and Transportation: Air Transpoztation (405); Commerre and Transportation: Vater Transportation (406). Organization Concerned: Department of Transportat'on. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Public works and Trausportation; Senate Committee on Finance; Congress. Authority: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 (P.L. 87-666; 76 Stat. 1145; 23 U.S.C. 134). Airports and A4rways Development Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-258. 84 Stat. 219; 49 U.S.C. 1712). (P.L. 89-670; 80 Stat. 931; 19 U.S.C. 1651). Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-236; 87 Stat. 985). Railroad Revitalization and RequlatoTy Reform Act of 1976. P.L. 94-210. 90 Stat. 31. Recognizing that they cannot continue tc focus on the is-sated needs of injvidual transportation modes, Federal, State, and local governments have begun to take a broader approach to planning thair transportation progrars and to consider each mode as an integral part of an overall transpcrtation system. This broader planning perspective is called internodal. Findings/Conclusions: The Federal Government has taken some positive steps toward intermodal planning, but 54ate transportation agencies have made little prxjress in intarcdal considerati4ns. Factors inhibiting States from taking an intermodal planning &pproach ore: (1) Federal capital, operating, aud planuingi grant programs for transportation are modally separate; (2) Federal trensportation plarting assistance, about $230 zillion annually, is available for airport, highway, rail, or transit planning but not ±oi intermcdal planning; (3) imbalances in Federal funding and stai£f assistanca impeded State efforts to develop a more balanced i, termodal planning capability; (4) States have their oVn institutional and legal barriers; and (5) States lack the technical xnowledge for many of the intermodal analyses they want tc perform. recommendations: To promote internodal planning by State and local transportation agencies, the Secretary of Transportation should: seek congressional legislation to consolidate airport, highway, railroad, and transit planning grants into a block grant for all transpcrtation planLing; marge existing modal planning staffs

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