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CED-82-17 1 (1982-01-20)

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     B-205902                                            JANUARY 20, 1982



     The Honorable Drew Lewis
     The Secretary of Transportation
                                                                   117320
     Dear Mr. Secretary:

          Subject: UMTA's Research and Development Program
                    Should Pay Closer Attention to Transit
                    Industry Needs (CED-82-17)

          We have reviewed the Urban Mass Transportation
     Administration's (UMTA's) research and development program and
     identified several management weaknesses in the program that
     warrant your attention. We found that UMTA:

          --Does not have a means of ensuring that projects it
            undertakes are addressing the transit industry's
            most important needs.

          -Is spending research funds and effort on solving
            problems that the private sector is addressing on
            its own.

          --Does not identify or consider barriers that prevent
            intended users from accepting or adopting research
            results.

     BACKGROUND

          Section 6 of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964,
     as amended, provides UMTA broad authority for research, develop-
     ment, and demonstration projects to reduce mass transportation
     needs or increase mass transportation service at minimum cost.
     UMTA tries to meet its goal of improving long-term mass trans-
     portation productivity, efficiency, and service by providing
     its grantees with innovative equipment, service concepts, and
     management techniques for providing transit services. UMTA
     carries out its research activities for both publicly and pri-
     vately owned segments of the transit industry, consisting pri-
     marily of operators but also planners and equipment suppliers
     and manufacturers. According to UMTA, it is supposed to


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