TITLE: Status of the Nation's Highway and Transit Systems: Capital and Maintenance Needs

CIS-NO: 2003-H751-37  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Sept. 26, 2002  
LENGTH: v+97 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-99  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-29932-7.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-99. Hearing before the Subcom on Highways and Transit to review findings of a biennial DOT report on physical conditions, operational performance, and investment needs of highways, bridges, and transit infrastructure nationwide, and to review findings of a GAO report on conditions and funding needs of the interstate highway system.
 
Supplementary material (p. 26-97) includes witnesses' written statements and a witness's written replies to Subcom questions, and a submitted statement.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Hwys and transit systems conditions and funding needs, DOT and GAO rpts review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HIGHWAYS AND TRANSIT. HOUSE;  BRIDGES; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; FEDERAL AID TO TRANSPORTATION; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; HIGHWAYS; INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS

03-H751-37 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Sept. 26, 2002 p. 2-19, 26-62
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   PETERS, MARY E. (Administrator, FHWA)
   JAMISON, ROBERT D. (Deputy Administrator, Federal Transit Administration)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Findings of 2002 DOT report on conditions and performance of highways, bridges, and transit infrastructure (related rpt excerpts, p. 34-42, 54-62); perspectives on funding and other issues relating to highways and transit.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Hwys and transit systems conditions and funding needs, DOT and GAO rpts review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
 
 
03-H751-37 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Sept. 26, 2002 p. 19-25, 63-82
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   SIGGERUD, KATHERINE (Acting Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, GAO)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Assessment of current and future conditions of the interstate highway system, with analysis of estimated maintenance costs for the interstate system (related graphs, p. 69-78 passim).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Hwys and transit systems conditions and funding needs, DOT and GAO rpts review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   STATISTICAL DATA: COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION

LOAD-DATE: August 29, 2003