Legislative initiative by the U.S. Congress that restructured funding for transportation programs. ISTEA authorized increased levels of highway and transportation funding from FY92-97 and increased the role of regional planning commissions/MPOs in funding decisions. The Act also required comprehensive regional and Statewide long-term transportation plans and places an increased emphasis on public participation and transportation alternatives.
Legislative initiative by the U.S. Congress that restructured funding for transportation programs. ISTEA authorized increased levels of highway and transportation funding and an enlarged role for regional planning commissions/MPOs in funding decisions. The act also requires comprehensive regional long-range transportation plans extending to the year 2015 and places an increased emphasis on public participation and transportation alternatives.
An omnibus act that further integrates the national intermodal surface transportation system and authorizes funds for highway construction, highway safety programs, and mass transit programs. ISTEA seeks a national intermodal surface transportation system that is economical, energy efficient, and environmentally sound. Section 1008 of the ISTEA establishes the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improve-ment Program which can provide funds to support alternative-fuel and alternative-fuel vehicle programs.
The landmark federal transportation legislation that implemented broad changes in the way transportation planning and funding decisions are made. ISTEA and its successor, Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) of 1998, emphasize use of a diversity and balance of modes and the preservation of existing systems over the construction of new facilities, especially roadways.
Federal legislation that mandated the way transportation decisions were to be made and funded. This landmark $155 billion federal legislation signed into law in December 1991, called for broad changes in transportation decision-making, and included major revisions to metropolitan and statewide planning processes. ISTEA emphasized diversity and balance of modes, as well as the preservation of existing systems over construction of new facilities. The law expired in September 1997, and was followed by TEA-21.
Federal legislation authorizing highway, highway safety, transit, and other surface transportation programs from 1991 through 1997. ISTEA provided new funding opportunities for sidewalks, shared-use paths and recreational trails. ISTEA was superceded by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
this congressional act created the national high priority corridor system and expanded transportation funding to include roads, transit, and other forms of surface transportation such as railroads.