Transportation issue area planU.S. General Accounting Office, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 1998 |
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addressing problems caused air traffic control air transport system airport development programs Amtrak's operating Assess DOT's aviation industry aviation industry's compliance Aviation infrastructure Boston Central Artery/Tunnel budget savings capital improvement plans commuter rail safety Competition and financial deregulation DOT's proposal efficient and effective enhance the safety ensuring FAA adequately FAA can better FAA's funding needs financial health fiscal year 1998 GAO'S audit high speed rail highway and transit human factors improve rail safety infrastructure projects investments issue area Issue Aviation safety Key Issues Issue Key Issues Objectives major job starts mass transit missions and functions NAFTA nation's surface transportation NTSB oversight of commuter passenger rail Planned major job procurement and personnel programs adequately meet promote rail programs adequately responsibilities safety and security societal costs strategies Surface transportation infrastructure surface transportation needs Surface transportation safety traffic control facilities transit programs Transportation Issues U.S. air transport U.S. Coast Guard U.S. General Accounting
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Page 4 - ... Program. Additionally, consistent with our recommendation, a Presidential Decision Directive established DOT as the lead agency for all federal civil Global Positioning System matters including coordination of civil augmentation systems to minimize costs and duplication of effort between agencies. Each year 40,000 people die on the nation's highways and about 1,200 are killed in railway accidents. The societal costs total in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Our work has contributed to the...
Page 4 - Agency (PAA) faces major challenges on how to deal with the effects of a downsized workforce and a growing aviation industry within the context of continuing to maintain a high level of safety in the US air transport system. In 1996, FAA also challenged itself and the aviation industry to achieve zero aviation accidents.
Page 6 - The Congress is looking closely at Coast Guard missions and functions to determine if any can be accomplished more efficiently through reduction, transfer, or privatization. It is also monitoring the agency's progress in downsizing in a fiscally and organizationally sound manner. Our work has focused on identifying ways to reduce the Coast Guard's budget consistent with these goals. The Coast...
Page 4 - ... Transportation (DOT) and its agencies, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take many actions to improve transportation safety and the efficiency and the effectiveness of transportation and telecommunications policies and programs. Over the next several years, the Federal Aviation Agency...